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Book SynopsisAndrogyny 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.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction 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
