A Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men Since the Middle Ages

di Matt Cook (Autore)

Robert Mills (Autore)

Randolph Trumbach (Autore)

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2007

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.

• Autore: Matt Cook, Robert Mills, Randolph Trumbach
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Anno: 2007
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 256 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 156 mm
• Peso: 624 gr.
• EAN: 9781846450020

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