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Queer Lives: Men´s Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France
William Peniston
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Description for Queer Lives: Men´s Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France
Paperback. Gives readers a glimpse into the otherwise shrouded existences of gay men in nineteenth-century France. This work relates the experiences of a man about town, a cross-dressing entertainer, a troubled adolescent, and two fetishists, among others. Editor(s): Peniston, William A.; Erber, Nancy. Translator(s): Peniston, William A.; Erber, Nancy. Num Pages: 292 pages, 8 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
Eight gay men wrote their autobiographies in French between 1845 and 1905; some of them reflected on their childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, others provided brief impressions of their loves and desires. A few of them dramatized their lives following contemporary theatrical and fictional models, while others wrote for medical doctors, who used the men's writings as case studies to illustrate their theories on sexual deviance. In some instances the doctors’ extensive interpretations cannot be separated from the men's own stories, but in others the authors speak for themselves. The remarkable autobiographies in Queer Lives, translated into English for the first time here, ... Read more
Eight gay men wrote their autobiographies in French between 1845 and 1905; some of them reflected on their childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, others provided brief impressions of their loves and desires. A few of them dramatized their lives following contemporary theatrical and fictional models, while others wrote for medical doctors, who used the men's writings as case studies to illustrate their theories on sexual deviance. In some instances the doctors’ extensive interpretations cannot be separated from the men's own stories, but in others the authors speak for themselves. The remarkable autobiographies in Queer Lives, translated into English for the first time here, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
292
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803260368
SKU
V9780803260368
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About William Peniston
William A. Peniston is the manager of the Newark Museum’s library and archives. He is the author of Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Nancy Erber is a professor of linguistics and modern languages at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York. She is the coeditor of Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual ... Read more
Reviews for Queer Lives: Men´s Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France
“Editors William A. Peniston and Nancy Erber do a good job of situating the original editors of these texts, the doctors who first published them, in the burgeoning and by no means monolithic thought of the era. . . . Peniston and Erber have provided a real service by making these works available to an English-speaking audience. Anyone who has ... Read more