| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (x, 182 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: "who need be afraid of the merge?" -- "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. |
| Summary |
"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 Bonner all expressed a deep fascination with androgyny - an interest that bore directly on their thoughts about some of the most prominent issues America confronted as it moved into the first decades of the twentieth century." "Shaheen not only considers the work of each of these seven writers individually, but he also reveals the interconnectedness of their ideas. He shows that Henry James used the concept of androgyny to make sense of the discord between the North and the South in the years immediately following the Civil War, while Norris and Gilman used it to formulate a new model of citizenship in the wake of America's industrial ascendancy. The author next explores the uses Ransom and Lumpkin made of androgyny in assessing the threat of radicalism once the Great Depression had weakened the country's faith in both capitalism and religious fundamentalism. Finally, he looks at how androgyny was instrumental in the discussions of racial uplift and urban migration generated by Du Bois and Bonner."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Sex in literature.
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Sex in literature. |
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Politics and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Modernism (Literature) |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shaheen, Aaron. Androgynous democracy. 1st ed. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2010 9781572336865 (DLC) 2009022561 (OCoLC)373058878 |
| ISBN |
9781572337114 (electronic book) |
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1572337117 (electronic book) |
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9781572336865 |
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1572336862 |
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