Androgyny in Modern Literature

Androgyny in Modern Literature engages with the ways in which the trope of androgyny has shifted during the late nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. Androgyny in Modern Literature engages with the ways in which the trope of androgyny has shifted during the late nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. Alchemical, platonic, sexological, psychological and decadent representations of androgyny have provided writers with an icon which has been appropriated in diverse ways. This fascinating new study traces different revisions of the psycho-sexual, embodied, cultural and feminist fantasies and repudiations of this unstable but enduring trope across a broad range of writers from the fin de siècle to the present.

• | Author: T. Hargreaves
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jan 01, 2005
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781349507948
• | ISBN-10: 1349507946