{"product_id":"queering-the-underworld-scott-herring-9780226327914","title":"Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eQueering the Underworld\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHerring is persuasive and polemical in connecting these writers to ongoing debates about lesbian and gay history and politics, and \u003ci\u003eQueering the Underworld\u003c\/i\u003e will be widely read by students and scholars of literature, history, and sexuality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Scott Herring\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226327914\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226327914\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/30\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.93h x 6.11w x 0.61d","brand":"Scott Herring","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096661500159,"sku":"9780226327914","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/queering-the-underworld-scott-herring-9780226327914","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}