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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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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2007University Of Chicago Press · 272 pages · 9780226327914
- Hardcover · English · 2007University Of Chicago Press · 272 pages · 9780226327907
City and town life in literatureHistory and criticismAmerican literatureSlums in literatureHomosexualityLesbianismGay culture in literatureLesbianism in literature