List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Queer Slumming
Underworld Unknowing
The Hermeneutics of Sexual Suspicion
The Suspicion of Sexual Hermeneutics
Rotten Politics
Chapter One Terra Incognita: Jane Addams, Philanthropic Slumming, and the Elusive Identity of Hull-House
Disappearing Acts
Spinster Panic
Queered Cosmopolitanism
Twenty Years in Cedarville
The Limbo of Forgotten Spectators
Chapter Two Willa Cather’s Experiment in Luxury
Cather’s Case History
In the Company of Tramps
Decadent Movements
The Miseries of Pittsburgh
Fairy Worlds
Slumming on Park Avenue
Capitalism and the Erasure of Gay Identity
Chapter Three “Slightly Known Territory”: Renaissance Admixture and the So-Called Van Vechten School
A Caucasian Storms Harlem
The Signifying Slummer
Parties and Mixers
Friendship beyond Understanding
Nugent’s Shtick
“Just a Case of Mixed Signs”
Chapter Four Antisapphic Modernism
Les mystères de Djuna Barnes
Looking for Bohemia
Stephen Gordon’s Slumming Tour
Lost in transition
Watchman, What of the Night?
Hidden from History
The Obscure Life
Epilogue: Secrets of the African-American Bisexual Man; or, Double Lives on the Down Low
Straight Outta Compton
Never Apologize, Never Explain
Undetectability
Beyond Subcultural Studies: A Manifesto
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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