Queering the underworld : slumming, literature, and the undoing of lesbian and gay history /
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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | xv, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-263) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226327907 0226327906 9780226327914 0226327914 |