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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

"Curious fragments from a vanished civilization":

Graham Robb has probably written one of the most comprehensive, authoritative and commanding accounts of homosexual love ever. Academic, inclusive, and wide-ranging, Strangers, is at once, entertaining, but also incredibly enlightening, as Robb effectively succeeds in dispelling many of the myths associated with Victorian sexual mores. His findings on gay love in the nineteenth century are quite surprising. Victorian attitudes towards homosexuality were in many respects relatively enlightened, especially in... more info

An eye-opener:

This book is an eye-opener, and it is a rich, well-written, masterful piece of cultural history. It also clears up a lot of misconceptions, both about gay history and about the Victorian era. Robb does not write boringly or dully, does not get bogged down in minutiae, does not accept received wisdom at face value, does not pander to constituencies or trends, and most of all, does not make the frequent error of succumbing to anachronistic condescension toward the period he is writing about. I finished the... more info

The colors of homosexuality:

While the twentieth century is the basis for our living experiences about homosexuality and the twenty-first century has already witnessed a faster-moving pace of its development, Graham Robb rightly places the emphasis on where we should look for guidance.... the nineteenth century. What a job the author has done!

Robb points out at the onset that the Victorian Age, prudish and mannered as it is remembered, was not necessarily all that it appeared. These hundred years witnessed an explosive expos?... more info

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