slumming, literature, and the undoing of lesbian and gay history
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Herring, Scott
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, homoseksualiteit, sociale klasse, steden, queer, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The author examines the work of the writers Jane Addams, Willa Cather, Carl Van Vechten and Djuna Barnes, and argues how they fulfilled the conventions of slumming literature but undermined its goals, and in the process, queered the genre itself.