Alchemical Construction of Genders in Anglo-American Fiction, 1799-1852: Visions of Utopia as Androgynous
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Main Author: Van Leeuwen, Evert Jan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lewiston Edwin Mellen Press 2011
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Item Description:This book examines unnoticed aspects of characters in both marginal and canonical works of American and English fiction
Includes bibliographical references and index
Alchemy, androgyny and utopianism -- Alchemists : self-portraits and interpretations -- William Godwin and his Necromancers -- William Godwin's St Leon -- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Edward Bulwer Lytton's Zanoni -- George Lippard's Paul Ardenheim -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter -- Herman Melville's Pierre
Physical Description:356 pages
ISBN:9780773417540
0773417540
9780773415324
0773415327