Strangers

Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century

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Graham Robb

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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.

Author Biography:

Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958. He has published widely in nineteenth-century French literature: his highly acclaimed adaptation of Claude Pichois and Jean Ziegler's biography of Baudelaire appeared in 1989, his biography of Balzac in 1994, his Victor Hugo - winner of the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Award and the Whitbread Biography Award - in 1997, and his critically applauded biography of Rimbaud - shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction - in 2000. He lives in Oxford.

Release date NZ

November 5th, 2004

Author

Graham Robb

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Interest Age

From 18 years

Pages

368

Dimensions

130x200x25

ISBN-13

9780330482240

Product ID

1692395

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