LEADER 04286nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910454902003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612239632 010 $a1-282-23963-5 010 $a0-226-32792-2 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226327921 035 $a(CKB)1000000000773737 035 $a(EBL)448552 035 $a(OCoLC)434595802 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000231538 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11193183 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000231538 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10219312 035 $a(PQKB)11273081 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000117472 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC448552 035 $a(DE-B1597)523179 035 $a(OCoLC)781291055 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226327921 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL448552 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10317894 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL223963 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000773737 100 $a20061211d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aQueering the underworld$b[electronic resource] $eslumming, literature, and the undoing of lesbian and gay history /$fScott Herring 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-32790-6 311 $a0-226-32791-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [237]-263) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Queer Slumming -- $tChapter One. Terra Incognita: Jane Addams, Philanthropic Slumming, and the Elusive Identity of Hull-House -- $tChapter Two. Willa Cather's Experiment in Luxury -- $tChapter Three. "Slightly Known Territory": Renaissance Admixture and the So-Called Van Vechten School -- $tChapter Four. Antisapphic Modernism -- $tEpilogue: Secrets of the African-American Bisexual Man; or, Double Lives on the Down Low -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aAt 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 Djuna Barnes, revealing how they fulfilled the conventions of slumming literature but undermined its goals, and in the process, queered the genre itself. Their work frustrated the reader's desire for sexual knowledge, restored the inscrutability of sexual identity, and cast doubt on the value of a homosexual subculture made visible and therefore subject to official control. Herring is persuasive and polemical in connecting these writers to ongoing debates about lesbian and gay history and politics, and Queering the Underworld will be widely read by students and scholars of literature, history, and sexuality. 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGay culture in literature 606 $aSlums in literature 606 $aCity and town life in literature 606 $aHomosexuality in literature 606 $aLesbianism in literature 606 $aHomosexuality$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aLesbianism$zUnited States$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGay culture in literature. 615 0$aSlums in literature. 615 0$aCity and town life in literature. 615 0$aHomosexuality in literature. 615 0$aLesbianism in literature. 615 0$aHomosexuality$xHistory. 615 0$aLesbianism$xHistory. 676 $a810.9/920664 700 $aHerring$b Scott$f1976-$0907028 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454902003321 996 $aQueering the underworld$92028888 997 $aUNINA