Queering Holmes: the bibliography post

[damned_colonial]

This is a round-up post for suggested reading related to this community's subject matter.



Queer history

Harry Cocks, "Nameless Offences: Homosexual desire in the 19th century", I. B. Tauris, 2009.

Matt Cook, "London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914", Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Graham Robb, "Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century", W. W. Norton & Co, 2003.


If you have suggestions for additions to the bibliography, please drop us a comment. The bibliography tag on this community is another place to look for book reviews and the like.

Comments

[yan-tan-tether.livejournal.com]

I'm about 200 pages into The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde by Neil McKenna and so far it has some good general information on gay life in the late 19th century, as well as all the detail on Wilde.

[damned_colonial]

Thanks for the rec :) Would you like a Dreamwidth invite code, btw? I have plenty to share.

[yan-tan-tether.livejournal.com]

No, but thanks for the offer.