London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914Cambridge University Press, 2003 - 223 pages London and the Culture of Homosexuality explores the relationship between London and male homosexuality from the criminalisation of all 'acts of gross indecency' between men in 1885 to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 - years marked by an intensification in concern about male-male relationships and also by the emergence of an embryonic homosexual rights movement. Taking his cue from literary and lesbian and gay scholars, urban historians and cultural geographers, Matt Cook combines discussion of London's homosexual subculture and various major and minor scandals with a detailed examination of representations in the press, in science and in literature. The conjunction of approaches used in this study provides fresh insights into the development of ideas about the modern homosexual and into the many different ways of comprehending and taking part in London's culture of homosexuality. |
Table des matières
London and the cities of the plain | 7 |
London 18851914 | 22 |
The grossly indecent city | 42 |
Bodies streets and perfumed rooms | 55 |
Lifting the veil on vice | 63 |
The inverted city | 73 |
Metropolitan case studies | 83 |
Erotic anthropology | 91 |
The decadent menace | 116 |
The Hellenic city | 122 |
Reform and the urban scene | 133 |
public spacesprivate lives | 143 |
Appendix | 151 |
Notes | 154 |
Bibliography | 195 |
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| Titre | London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914 Volume 39 de Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, ISSN 1747-3136 |
| Auteur | Matt Cook |
| Édition | illustrée, réimprimée |
| Éditeur | Cambridge University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0521822076, 9780521822077 |
| Longueur | 223 pages |
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