num_pages: 342
description: Award-winning author Graham Robb explores the story – and history –of male and female homosexuality in the UK and US, uncovering elements from legislature, literature, medicine and day-to-day life that point to a particularly self-aware and sophisticated culture of Victorian homosexuality. Drawing on famous cases such as the Wilde trials, as well as a wide variety of previously neglected sources, Robb recreates this era with great insight, humour and aplomb, exploding modern myths and restoring the real and vibrant truth of homosexual love to today’s Strangers tells a tale that is in part familiar, and in part extremely surprising – a story of oppression and secrecy, but also of unexpected tolerance and familiarity.
language: English
title: Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century
titlecomplete: Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century
genres: Historical, Nonfiction, Victorian, LGBT, History, Research, 19th Century, Gay, Queer, Sexuality
ratings_count: 473
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Randy Shilts Award
category: Gay Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: Picador