Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Hardcover): London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885 1914 (Hardcover)

Matt Cook; King Edward VII Professor and President of Clare Hall Gillian Beer
Cambridge University Press
9780521822077
0-521-82207-6

Matt Cook explores the relationship between London and homosexuality from 1885 to 1914, years marked by intensification in concern about male-male relationships and also by the emergence of an embryonic.

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homosexual rights movement. Cook combines his coverage of London's homosexual subculture and various major and minor scandals with a detailed examination of representations in the press, science and literature. This conjunction of approaches distinguishes this study from other works and provides new insight into the development of ideas about homosexuality during the period.