London And The Culture Of Homosexuality 1885 1914

Author : Matt Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521822076

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London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914 by Matt Cook Pdf

London and the Culture of Homosexuality explores the relationship between London and male homosexuality from the criminalisation of all 'acts of gross indecency' between men in 1885 to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 - years marked by an intensification in concern about male-male relationships and also by the emergence of an embryonic homosexual rights movement. Taking his cue from literary and lesbian and gay scholars, urban historians and cultural geographers, Matt Cook combines discussion of London's homosexual subculture and various major and minor scandals with a detailed examination of representations in the press, in science and in literature. The conjunction of approaches used in this study provides fresh insights into the development of ideas about the modern homosexual and into the many different ways of comprehending and taking part in London's culture of homosexuality.

Author : M. Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:863305417

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London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914 by M. Cook Pdf

Author : Matt Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : London (England)
ISBN : OCLC:1036682802

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London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914 by Matt Cook Pdf

Matt Cook explores the relationship between London and homosexuality from 1885 to 1914, years marked by intensification in concern about male-male relationships and also by the emergence of an embryonic homosexual rights movement. Cook combines his coverage of London's homosexual subculture and various major and minor scandals with a detailed examination of representations in the press, science and literature. This conjunction of approaches distinguishes this study from other works and provides new insight into the development of ideas about homosexuality during the period.

Author : Matt Cook,Robert Mills,Randolph Trumbach,H.G. Cocks
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122860385

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A Gay History of Britain by Matt Cook,Robert Mills,Randolph Trumbach,H.G. Cocks Pdf

"A Gay History of Britain tells the extraordinary history of male-male sex and love in Britain, in all its diversity, from the Middle Ages to the present.

Author : Matt Houlbrook
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226354620

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Queer London by Matt Houlbrook Pdf

'Queer London' explores the underground gay culture of London during four decades when homosexual acts between consenting adults remained illegal. The author discovers how queer men made sense of their sexuality and how their lifestyles were affected by and in turn influenced the life of the metropolis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781399071109

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark W. Turner
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1861891806

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Backward Glances by Mark W. Turner Pdf

Focusing upon gay street life in London and New York, Mark Turner presents this gay urban history of male street cruising.

Author : Paul R. Deslandes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226771618

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The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain by Paul R. Deslandes Pdf

Setting the Stage: The Foundations of Modern Male Beauty -- Physiognomists and Photographers -- Beauty Experts and Hairdressing Entrepreneurs -- Artists, Athletes, and Celebrities -- Poets, Soldiers, and Monuments -- Men on Display in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries -- Brylcreem Men, Cinema Idols, and Uniforms -- Teenagers, Bodybuilders, and Models -- Youthful Rebels, Gender-Benders, and Gay Men -- Insecure Men, Metrosexuals, and Spornosexuals.

Author : Judith Walkowitz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300151947

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Nights Out by Judith Walkowitz Pdf

London's Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its old buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political disloyalty, and ethnic diversity became a center of culinary and cultural tourism servicing patrons of nearby shops and theaters. Indulgences for the privileged and the upwardly mobile edged a dangerous, transgressive space imagined to be "outside" the nation. Treating Soho as exceptional, but also representative of London's urban transformation, Judith Walkowitz shows how the area's foreignness and porousness were key to the explosion of culture and development of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century. She draws on a vast and unusual range of sources to stitch together a rich patchwork quilt of vivid stories and unforgettable characters, revealing how Soho became a showcase for a new cosmopolitan identity.

Author : Richard J. Ruppel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135914226

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Homosexuality in the Life and Work of Joseph Conrad by Richard J. Ruppel Pdf

This book examines the representations of homosexuality and homoeroticism in Conrad’s fiction. Drawing on the work of Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Robert Hodges, Wayne Koestenbaum, Christopher Lane, and others who have already begun unearthing and analyzing this subject, the author traces Conrad’s representations of homosexuality and homoeroticism, beginning with the Malay works and ending with The Shadow Line.

Author : Alla Myzelev
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351558945

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"Material Cultures, 1740?920 " by Alla Myzelev Pdf

Interweaving notions of identity and subjectivity, spatial contexts, materiality and meaning, this collection makes a significant contribution to debates around the status and interpretation of visual and material culture. Material Cultures, 1740-1920 has four primary theoretical and historiographic lines of inquiry. The first is how concepts of otherness and difference inform, imbricate, and impose themselves on identity and the modes of acquisition as well as the objects themselves. The second concern explores the intricacies of how objects and their subjects negotiate and represent spatial narratives. The third thread attempts to unravel the ideological underpinnings of collections of individuals which inevitably and invariably rub up against the social, the institutional, and the political. Finally, at the heart of Material Cultures, 1740-1920 is an intervention moving beyond the disciplinary ethos of material culture to argue more firmly for the aesthetic, visual, and semiotic potency inseparable from any understanding of material objects integral to the lives of their collecting subjects. The collection argues that objects are semiotic conduits or signs of meanings, pleasures, and desires that are deeply subjective; more often than not, they reveal racial, gendered, and sexual identities. As the volume demonstrates through its various case studies, material and visual cultures are not as separate as our current disciplinary ethos would lead us to believe.

Author : Robert Aldrich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317805281

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Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka by Robert Aldrich Pdf

Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, was long known to travellers for its luxuriant landscapes, colourful temples and friendly inhabitants – the island once named Serendip. This book explores the sojourns of gay visitors from the late 1800s to the modern day, providing a history of homosexuality, travel and cultural encounter on the island. The book offers profiles of major figures in Sri Lankan culture and of homosexual visitors, both famous and infamous, to the island. It discusses the experiences of sojourners including the Victorian social reformer Edward Carpenter and the German naturalist Ernst Haeckel, such British and American writers as Paul Bowles and Arthur C. Clarke, and the Australian painter Donald Friend. It also pays particular attention to Lionel Wendt, one of the most important modernist photographers outside Europe. For these figures, an erotic appreciation of young men whom they encountered mixed with interest in Sinhalese art, Buddhist and Hindu spirituality, and the flora and fauna of the island. Their experiences influenced modern writing, art and dance. Cultural influences moved in both directions, however, and Sri Lankans also found inspiration from abroad. The book argues that homosexuals played a major role in the transmission of cultural influences from Sri Lanka to the rest of the world, and from the wider world to this Indian Ocean island. Providing an original analysis of gay cultures in Sri Lanka from Victorian encounters to the present day, this book is the first study of Sri Lanka as a site of gay travel. An excellent study of trans-national cultural exchange, sexuality and the relationships between them, it will be of interest to academics in the field of Asian Studies, Colonial History and Gay and Queer Studies.

Author : David Deutsch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474235839

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British Literature and Classical Music by David Deutsch Pdf

British Literature and Classical Music explores literary representations of classical music in early 20th century British writing. Covering authors ranging from T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells and D.H. Lawrence, the book examines literature produced during a period of widely proliferating philosophical, educational, and performance-oriented musical activities in both public and private settings. David Deutsch demonstrates how this proliferation caused classical music to become an increasingly vital element of British culture and a vehicle for exploring contentious issues such as social mobility, sexual freedoms, and international political rivalries. Through the use of archives of concert programs, cult novels, and letters written during the First and Second World Wars, the book examines how authors both celebrated and satirized the musicality of the lower-middle and working classes, same-sex desiring individuals, and cosmopolitan promoters of a shared European culture to depict these groups as valuable members of and - less frequently as threats to – British life.

Author : Adam Geczy,Vicki Karaminas
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781472535344

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Queer Style by Adam Geczy,Vicki Karaminas Pdf

Queer Style offers an insight into queer fashionability by addressing the role that clothing has played in historical and contemporary lifestyles. From a fashion studies perspective, it examines the function of subcultural dress within queer communities and the mannerisms and messages that are used as signifiers of identity. Diverse dress is examined, including effeminate 'pansy,' masculine macho 'clone,' the 'lipstick' and 'butch' lesbian styles and the extreme styles of drag kings and drag queens. Divided into three main sections on history, subcultural identity and subcultural style, Queer Style will be of particular interest to students of dress and fashion as well as those coming to subculture from sociology and cultural studies.

Author : David Amigoni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351922258

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Life Writing and Victorian Culture by David Amigoni Pdf

In this collection of interdisciplinary essays, experts from Britain and the United States in the fields of nineteenth-century literature, and social and cultural history explore new directions in the field of Victorian life writing. Chapters examine a varied yet interrelated range of genres, from the biography and autobiography, to the relatively neglected diary, collective biography, and obituary. Reflecting the rich research being conducted in this area, the contributors link life writing to the formation of gendered and class-based identities; the politics of the Victorian family; and the broader professional, political, colonial, and literary structures in which social and kinship relations were implicated. A wide variety of Victorian works are considered, from the diary of the Radical Samuel Bamford, to the diary of the homosexual George Ives; from autobiographies of professional men to collective biographies of eminent women. Embracing figures as diverse as Gandhi, Wilde, and Bradlaugh, the collection explores the way in which narratives contested one another in a society that devoted an abundance of cultural energy to writing about, and reading of, lives.