Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-263) and index
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
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. 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 Dju
