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

[damned_colonial]

Ooh, interesting, thanks!

[iamshadow]

No problem! If you get hold of it, do review it and let me know if it's worth getting, won't you?

[damned_colonial]

Sure! I tend to buy batches of books from Abebooks when I've got some spare cash, but I have a backlog at present, so it might not be for a while. (It is a sad, sad fact that buying books secondhand online is cheaper for me than paying the library fines I invariably accrue if I try to fool myself into believing that borrowing from the library is cheaper.)

[iamshadow]

LOL, me too. Abebooks is good, but have you tried Bookmooch? I've been on there for over four years, and it's brilliant. Got plenty of books on there I never would have been able to find, otherwise.

[damned_colonial]

Yeah, I used them extensively for a while, but they seem to have dried up. I never get notifications of books available lately :( Maybe I want stuff that's too obscure? Or the algorithm is complicated and wants me to send stuff out before it will send stuff to me, even though I have a heap of points I'm trying to use up before I gain any more?

[iamshadow]

I'm still finding them pretty useful, and I search for a lot of obscure books, mainly on autism, rather than queer studies. Maybe it's worth going through and doing a search for related editions for the ones on your wishlist? That's got a lot better in the last couple of years.