Androgyny in Modern Literature

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-14

3. Classical to Medical

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   Pages 15-38

4. Despised and Rejected

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   Pages 39-67

5. Virginia Woolf

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   Pages 68-96

6. The Second Wave

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7. Myra Breckinridge and The Passion of New Eve

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8. Alchemy and The Chymical Wedding

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9. Back Matter

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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.

• alchemy
• English literature
• Fin de Siècle
• icon
• literature
• Plato
• present
• Virginia Woolf

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

• School of English, University of Leeds, UK

  Tracy Hargreaves

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

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