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Queering the underworld : slumming, literature, and the undoing of lesbian and gay history /
At the start of the twentieth century, tales of "how the other half lives" experienced a surge in popularity. People looking to go slumming without leaving home turned to these narratives for spectacular revelations of the underworld and sordid details about the deviants who populated it....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | At the start of the twentieth century, tales of "how the other half lives" experienced a surge in popularity. People looking to go slumming without leaving home turned to these narratives for spectacular revelations of the underworld and sordid details about the deviants who populated it. In this major rethinking of American literature and culture, Scott Herring explores how a key group of authors manipulated this genre to paradoxically evade the confines of sexual identification. Queering the Underworld examines a range of writers, from Jane Addams and Willa Cather to Carl Van Vechten and Dju. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-263) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226327921 0226327922 0226327906 9780226327907 9786612239632 6612239638 1282239635 9781282239630 |