Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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Title Information: |
a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture |
Author: |
HeiseThomas, 1971- |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
Place of Publication: |
New Brunswick, N.J. |
Published: |
Rutgers University Press; |
Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
Description: |
1 online resource (xi, 292 p.)ill. : |
Series: |
American literatures initiative |
Subject: |
Place (Philosophy) in literature - |
Subject: |
Difference (Psychology) in literature - |
Subject: |
Group identity in literature - |
Subject: |
Literature and society - History - United States - 20th century - |
Subject: |
Social classes in literature - |
Subject: |
American literature - History and criticism - 20th century - |
Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813549811/ |
Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: |
9780813549811electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
0813549817electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
9780813547848hbk. |
ISBN: |
9780813547855pbk. |
ISBN: |
0813547857pbk. |
Content Note: |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction. An overview and an underview: Uneven development and the social production of American underworlds -- Going down: Narratives of slumming in the ethnic underworlds of lower New York, 1890s-1910s -- Degenerate "Sex and the City": The underworlds of New York and Paris in the work of Djuna Barnes and Claude McKay, 1910s-1930s -- The black underground: Urbanriots, the black underclass, and the work of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, 1940s-1950s -- Wasteddreams: John Rechy, Thomas Pynchon, and the underworlds of Los Angeles, 1960s -- White spaces and urban ruins: Postmodern geographies in Don DeLillo's underworld, 1950s-1990s |