Androgyny in Modern Literature [Hardcover]

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 si?cle to the present.Introduction Classical to Medical Despised and Rejected Virginia Woolf The Second Wave Myra Breckinridge and The Passion of New Eve Alchemy and the Chymical Wedding Index

'...an insightful and stimulating read.' - Women: A Cultural Review

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