Alchemical construction of genders in Anglo-American fiction, 1799-1852
Subtitle: visions of utopia as androgynous
By: Evert Jan van Leeuwen ; with a foreword by Hans-Ulrich Mohr
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780773415324
Subjects: Utopias in literature; Androgyny (Psychology) in literature; History and criticism; Romanticism; Alchemy in literature; English fiction; American fiction; Characters and characteristics in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-332) and index.
Table of contents: title: Alchemy, androgyny and utopianism; title: Alchemists : self-portraits and interpretations; title: William Godwin and his Necromancers; title: William Godwin's St Leon (1799); title: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818); title: Edward Bulwer Lytton's Zanoni (1842); title: George Lippard's Paul Ardenheim (1848); title: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter (1850); title: Herman Melville's Pierre (1852); title: The birth and death of the romantic alchemist.