{"id":120365,"date":"2016-01-02T01:15:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T01:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/02\/sherlock-holmes-and-victorian-homosexuality\/"},"modified":"2016-01-02T01:15:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T01:15:23","slug":"sherlock-holmes-and-victorian-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/02\/sherlock-holmes-and-victorian-homosexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherlock Holmes and Victorian Homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"

sherloki1854<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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weeesi<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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[This is the final post in my series on Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century<\/i> by Graham Robb. Previous posts can be found here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

Dearest friends. Dear sweet ones. Dear softest lambs. Prepare yourselves.<\/p>\n

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Robb\u2019s last chapter is on literature and literary references to homosexuality. <\/p>\n

And he chooses to talk \u2013 at length \u2013 about Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.<\/p>\n

He writes:<\/p>\n

\nThe following observations are not a sly attempt to ensnare the great detective in the elastic web of gay revisionism. Everyone already knows, instinctively, that Holmes is homosexual.<\/b> <\/i>
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Well then. <\/p>\n

If there is one post you read from this series, it should be this one.<\/p>\n

Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

@weeesi<\/a> I just want to tell you how much I loved this series. It\u2019s brilliant. If I can find the book, I\u2019ll read it\u2026 It\u2019s good to see that not all SH theory in print is against any queer coding. Thanks!!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

sherloki1854: weeesi: [This is the final post in my series on Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb. Previous posts can be found here.] Dearest friends. Dear sweet ones. Dear softest lambs. Prepare yourselves. Robb\u2019s last chapter is on literature and literary references to homosexuality. And he chooses to talk \u2013 at … <\/p>\n

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