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. 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
Published: 11/10/2004
Pages: 202
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.86w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9781403902009

About the Author
TRACY HARGREAVES teaches modern and contemporary literature in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK