An edition of Queering the Underworld (2007)
Queering the Underworld
Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History
By Dr. Scott Robert Herring
Publish Date
December 30, 2007
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press,University of Chicago Press
Language
eng
Pages
272
Description:
Scott Herring explores how a key group of authors manipulated this genre to paradoxically evade the confines of sexual identification. He reveals how they fulfilled the conventions of slumming literature but undermined its goals, and in the process, queered the genre itself.
subjects: City and town life in literature, History and criticism, American literature, Slums in literature, Homosexuality, Lesbianism, Gay culture in literature, Lesbianism in literature, Homosexuality in literature, History, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Gays in literature, Lesbians in literature, Homosexuality, history