Urban Underworlds : A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture.
Title:
Urban Underworlds : A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture.
Author:
Heise, Thomas.
ISBN:
9780813549811
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (306 pages)
Series:
The American Literatures Initiative
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- An Overview -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
Urban Underworlds is an exploration of city spaces, pathologized identities, lurid fears, and American literature. Surveying the 1890s to the 1990s, Thomas Heise chronicles how and why marginalized populations immigrant Americans in the Lower East Side, gays and lesbians in Greenwich Village and downtown Los Angeles, the black underclass in Harlem and Chicago, and the new urban poor dispersed across American cities have been selectively targeted as "urban underworlds" and their neighborhoods characterized as miasmas of disease and moral ruin.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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