Strangers :Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century
Strangers :Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century
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Published:
5 November, 2004
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In Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century, award-winning author Graham Robb explores the story – and history – of male and female homosexuality in the UK and US, uncovering elements from legislature, literature, medicine and day-to-day life that point to a particularly self-aware and sophisticated culture of Victorian homosexuality.
Drawing on famous cases such as the Wilde trials, as well as a wide variety of previously neglected sources, Robb recreates this era with great insight, humour and aplomb, exploding modern myths and restoring the real and vibrant truth of homosexual love to today’s readers: Strangers tells a tale that is in part familiar, and in part extremely surprising – a story of oppression and secrecy, but also of unexpected tolerance and familiarity.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780330482240 |
| ISBN10 | 0330482246 |
| Number Of Pages | 368 |
| Item Weight | 404 g |
| Product Dimensions | 127 x 203 x 21 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Pan Macmillan |
| Format | paperback |
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Author's Bio
Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His 2007 book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border.