LEADER 03251nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910808897503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-09848-2 010 $a9786613098481 010 $a1-57233-711-7 035 $a(CKB)2560000000054978 035 $a(EBL)668937 035 $a(OCoLC)699519513 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000466941 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11284435 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000466941 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10489235 035 $a(PQKB)11604637 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC668937 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18496 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL668937 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10437918 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL309848 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000054978 100 $a20090603d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAndrogynous democracy $emodern American literature and the dual-sexed body politic /$fAaron Shaheen 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aKnoxville $cUniversity of Tennessee Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (193 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-57233-686-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"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. 330 $aAndrogynous 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 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zUnited States 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSex in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aSex in literature. 676 $a810.9/3538 700 $aShaheen$b Aaron$01673204 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808897503321 996 $aAndrogynous democracy$94037140 997 $aUNINA