Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century
The nineteenth century was a golden age for those people known variously as sodomites, Uranians, monosexuals, and homosexuals. Long before Stonewall and Gay Pride, there was such a thing as gay culture, and it was recognized throughout Europe and America. Graham Robb, brilliant biographer of Balzac, Hugo, and Rimbaud, examines how homosexuals were treated by society and finds a tale of surprising tolerance. He describes the lives of gay men and women: how they discovered their sexuality and accepted or disguised it; how they came out; how they made contact with like-minded people. He also includes a fascinating investigation of the encrypted…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-32649-9
- EAN: 9780393326499
- Produktnummer: 1831259
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.1 cm x D2.7 cm 441 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 441
Über den Autor
Best-selling author Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He is an acclaimed historian and biographer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has won the Whitbread Biography Prize and the Heinemann Award for Victor Hugo, as well as the Ondaatje Prize and Duff Cooper Prize for The Discovery of France. His book Parisians was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. He lives on the Anglo-Scottish border.
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