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UNINA9910791675303321 |
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Autore |
Shaheen Aaron |
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Titolo |
Androgynous democracy [[electronic resource] ] : modern American literature and the dual-sexed body politic / / Aaron Shaheen |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-09848-2 |
9786613098481 |
1-57233-711-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (193 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Modernism (Literature) - United States |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 19th century |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
Sex in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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"The social dusk of that mysterious democracy": race, sexology, and the modern woman in Henry James's postbellum America -- Commercial androgyny: reformulating the modern liberal subject in Frank Norris and Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Reactionary and radical androgyny: two southerners assess the depression-era body politic -- Race, gender, and democratic space in W.E.B. Du Bois and Marita Bonner -- Epilogue: androgyny, fascism, and beyond. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Androgynous Democracy examines how the notions of gender equality propounded by transcendentalists and other nineteenth-century writers were further developed and complicated by the rise of literary modernism. Aaron Shaheen specifically investigates the ways in which intellectual discussions of androgyny, once detached from earlier gonadal-based models, were used by various American authors to formulate their own paradigms of democratic national cohesion. Indeed, Henry James, Frank Norris, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Crowe Ransom, Grace Lumpkin, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marita B |
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