TY - BOOK ID - 77912505 TI - Androgynous democracy PY - 2010 SN - 1283098482 9786613098481 1572337117 9781572337114 9781572336865 1572336862 PB - Knoxville University of Tennessee Press DB - UniCat KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Politics and literature KW - American literature KW - Sex in literature. KW - History KW - History and criticism. KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Sex in literature KW - 19th century KW - United States KW - James, Henry KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Norris, Frank KW - Gilman, Charlotte Perkins KW - Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt KW - Bonner, Marita KW - Lumpkin, Grace KW - Ransom, John Crowe UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77912505 AB - 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 ER -