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

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Urban Underworlds Urban Underworlds A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture thomas heise Rutgers University Press new brunswick, new jersey, and london Copyright © 2011 by Thomas Heise. All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854–8099. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. Visit our Web site: http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu Manufactured in the United States of America library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Heise, Thomas, 1971– Urban underworlds : a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture / Thomas Heise. p. cm. — (American literatures initiative) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8135-4784-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8135-4785-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. American literature—20th century—History and criticism. 2. Social classes in literature. 3. Literature and society—United States—History— 20th century. 4. Group identity in literature. 5. Difference (Psychology) in literature. 6. Place (Philosophy) in literature. I. Title. PS228.S63H45 2011 810.9'355—dc22 2010004657 A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. A book in the American Literatures Initiative (ALI), a collaborative publishing project of NYU Press, Fordham University Press, Rutgers University Press, Temple University Press, and the University of Virginia Press. The Initiative is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information, please visit www.americanliteratures.org. For Christine ...