03311nam 2200697Ia 450 991045812860332120200520144314.01-283-09848-297866130984811-57233-711-7(CKB)2560000000054978(EBL)668937(OCoLC)699519513(SSID)ssj0000466941(PQKBManifestationID)11284435(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000466941(PQKBWorkID)10489235(PQKB)11604637(MiAaPQ)EBC668937(MdBmJHUP)muse18496(Au-PeEL)EBL668937(CaPaEBR)ebr10437918(CaONFJC)MIL309848(EXLCZ)99256000000005497820090603d2010 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAndrogynous democracy[electronic resource] modern American literature and the dual-sexed body politic /Aaron Shaheen1st ed.Knoxville University of Tennessee Pressc20101 online resource (193 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-57233-686-2 Includes bibliographical references and index."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.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 BAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)United StatesPolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centurySex in literatureElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)Politics and literatureHistoryPolitics and literatureHistorySex in literature.810.9/3538Shaheen Aaron906848MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458128603321Androgynous democracy2028506UNINA