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The book explores the changing ways in which male-male sex and love have been perceived and experienced from the late Anglo-Saxon period to the present. Celebrated figures, such as Richard Lionheart, whose love for Philip Augustus of France was so well-documented, Oscar Wilde, gubject of the most explosive scandal of the Victorian period, and Derek Jarman, the great artist and chronicler of the age of AIDS, are examined alongside little-known figures: Eleanor/John Rykener, a cross-dresser in Chaucer's England, the mollies of eighteenth-century London, the habituants of underground gay bars and cafes in 1930s Manchester and Brighton, and the newly-confident gays of contemporary Britain, who marry, adopt children and command the increasingly powerful 'pink pound'. Drawing on a fabulous wealth of research, the authors - each an expert in his field - have worked closely together to deliver a powerful, highly-readable and eye-opening history of love and desire between men in Britain.
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A Gay History of Britain, Randolph Trumbach, Matt Cook
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2007
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- Titel
- A Gay History of Britain
- Untertitel
- Love and Sex Between Men Since the Middle Ages
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Randolph Trumbach, Matt Cook
- Verlag
- Praeger
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2007
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 256
- ISBN10
- 1846450020
- ISBN13
- 9781846450020
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Historisches Thema, LGBTQ+ Literatur
- Bewertung
- 3,65 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- The book explores the changing ways in which male-male sex and love have been perceived and experienced from the late Anglo-Saxon period to the present. Celebrated figures, such as Richard Lionheart, whose love for Philip Augustus of France was so well-documented, Oscar Wilde, gubject of the most explosive scandal of the Victorian period, and Derek Jarman, the great artist and chronicler of the age of AIDS, are examined alongside little-known figures: Eleanor/John Rykener, a cross-dresser in Chaucer's England, the mollies of eighteenth-century London, the habituants of underground gay bars and cafes in 1930s Manchester and Brighton, and the newly-confident gays of contemporary Britain, who marry, adopt children and command the increasingly powerful 'pink pound'. Drawing on a fabulous wealth of research, the authors - each an expert in his field - have worked closely together to deliver a powerful, highly-readable and eye-opening history of love and desire between men in Britain.