Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)

The Historian | June 22, 2005| | Copyright

Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century. By Graham Robb. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. Pp. viii, 342. $26.95.)

The subject of this book is homosexual love in Europe and America, "the obstacles it encountered and the societies it created" during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Graham Robb's first chapter, titled "Prejudices," lists scores of theoretical causes--physiological, psychological and social--culled from some 350 contemporary texts, most of them bizarre, even outre. Robb rejects not only Freud's etiology (put forth in his ...

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