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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....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Herring, Scott, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Queer Slumming
  • Terra incognita: Jane Addams, philanthropic slumming, and the elusive identity of Hull-House
  • Willa Cather's experiment in luxury
  • "Slightly known territory": renaissance admixture and the so-called van vechten school
  • Antisapphic modernism
  • Secrets of the African-American bisexual man; or, double lives on the down low.