Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture

by Thomas Heise and Professor Thomas Heise

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813547857
• ISBN13: 9780813547855
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"