Queer Cambridge
An Alternative History
by Simon Goldhill
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Pub Date Feb 06 2025 | Archive Date Jan 17 2025
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Description
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.
Advance Praise
‘This powerful, moving and hugely enjoyable slice of homosexual history, meticulously researched and written with sympathy, wit and elegance, recreates a queer college community and its evolution from the nineteenth century to the present. In a story shaded with nuance, Goldhill presents a judicious assessment of the evidence: letters, diaries, college records, anecdotes, legends, paintings, photographs, biographies, confessions. He opens up this closed college world of secrets like an oyster, filled with pearls and brine.' Patricia Duncker, author of Hallucinating Foucault
Available Editions
EDITION | Hardcover |
ISBN | 9781009528061 |
PRICE | $29.95 (USD) |
PAGES | 240 |