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Queer Cambridge

An Alternative History

AvSimon Goldhill

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Queer Cambridge recounts the untold story of a gay community living, for many decades, at the very heart of the British Establishment. Making effective use of chiefly forgotten archival sources - including personal diaries and letters - the author reveals a network that was in equal parts tolerant and acerbic, and within which the queer Fellows of Cambridge University explored bold new forms of camaraderie and relationship. Goldhill examines too the huge influence that these individuals had on British culture, in its arts, politics, music, theatre and self-understanding. During difficult decades when homosexuality was unlawful, gay academics - who included celebrated literary and scientific figures like E. M. Forster, M. R. James, Rupert Brooke and Alan Turing - lived, loved, and grew old together, bringing new generations into their midst. Their remarkable stories add up not just to an alternative history of male homosexuality in Britain, but to an alternative history of Cambridge itself.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-05-14
Mått:131 x 196 x 14 mm
Vikt:410 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:316
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009851893

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Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
HBTQ+ inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Simon Goldhill, FBA, is a Professor of Classical Literature at Cambridge University and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, where he is also Director of Studies in Classics. One of world's best-known authors on ancient Greek literature and culture, and their reception in the modern West, he has written more than twenty books which have been translated into twelve languages and won three international prizes. He has lectured and broadcast around the world on both radio and on television.

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'Queer Cambridge succeeds on a number of fronts. It is a fascinating analysis of a remarkably coherent group identity and its transmission across generations. It is a revelatory work of institutional history, delivering rich insight both into one institution in particular and into how institutions in general work to create and solidify identity and values. And it is a book that says new and unusual things about the place of same-sex desire at the heart of the Victorian and Edwardian English cultural' establishment. I agree with pretty much every word of Queer Cambridge, and learned something new and surprising on every page. Darryl Jones, Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture, Trinity College Dublin

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: a brief introduction to a large topic; 1. The discovery of homosexuality; 2. The politics of homosexuality; 3. The art of homosexuality; 4. The burial of homosexuality.

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