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Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History
By (author) Simon Goldhill
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Queer Cambridge recounts the untold story of a gay community living, for many decades, at the very heart of the British Establishment. Making effective use of chiefly forgotten archival sources – including personal diaries and letters – the author reveals a network that was in equal parts tolerant and acerbic, and within which the queer Fellows of Cambridge University explored bold new forms of camaraderie and relationship. Goldhill examines too the huge influence that these individuals had on British culture, in its arts, politics, music, theatre and self-understanding. During difficult decades when homosexuality was unlawful, gay academics – who included celebrated literary and scientific figures like E. M. Forster, M. R. James, Rupert Brooke and Alan Turing – lived, loved, and grew old together, bringing new generations into their midst. Their remarkable stories add up not just to an alternative history of male homosexuality in Britain, but to an alternative history of Cambridge itself.
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Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Published date | 16 Jan 2025
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 316
Dimensions | 223 x 148 x 21mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 590g
ISBN | 978-1-0095-2806-1
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BISAC | literary criticism / european / english, irish, scottish, welsh
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