Strangers (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Graham Robb
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1800-1918
- Setting: England, Europe, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Magnus Hirschfeld, Oscar Wilde, Edward Carpenter, Richard von Krafft-Ebing
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, England or English people, Lesbianism or lesbians, Great Britain, Toleration
- Locales: Europe, United States, England
It was while doing the research for his biographies of the great nineteenth century French writers Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, and Arthur Rimbaud that Graham Robb was struck by the intriguing material he kept turning up about homosexuality during that period. Not only was there a staggering amount of it, but it also seemed to contradict traditional notions of what life was like for Victorian gay men and women. The more Robb looked, the more his excavations revealed “curious fragments of what seemed a vanished civilization.” It is this lost and largely unexplored gay culture that...
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