Graham Robb on Sherlock Holmes
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Everyone already knows, instinctively, that Holmes is homosexual,? Graham Robb writes in a chapter on early fictional detectives in his new book, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century.
I didn?t, still don?t. Makes me think of Dr. Frederic Wertham?s statement in Seduction of the Innocent that Batman and Robin?s, um, subtle homoeroticism was proof that comics were bad for kids.
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Richard Evans LeeJanuary 26, 2004Reader, what do you think?
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