Queer Lives : Men's Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France.
Title:
Queer Lives : Men's Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France.
Author:
Peniston, William A.
ISBN:
9780803215733
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (293 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE The Dramatization of the Self -- AUTOBIOGRAPHY ONE "Secret Confessions of a Parisian" by Arthur W--, "The Countess" (1874) -- PART TWO Autobiographies as Case Studies -- AUTOBIOGRAPHY TWO "Loves" by Anonymous, in Dr. Ambroise Tardieu's A Medical and Legal Study on Assaults against Morality (1867) -- AUTOBIOGRAPHY THREE "Observation 1" by Anonymous, in Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and Dr. Valentin Magnan's Inversion of the Sexual Instinct (1881) -- AUTOBIOGRAPHY FOUR "Autobiographical Notes" by Gustave L--, in Dr. Paul Garnier's Madness in Paris (1890) -- AUTOBIOGRAPHY FIVE "Autobiographical Notes" by Louis X--, in Dr. Paul Garnier's The Fetishists (1895) -- AUTOBIOGRAPHY SIX "Letter to My Parents" and "My Autobiography" by Antonio, in Dr. André Antheaume and Dr. Léon Parrot's A Case of Sexual Inversion (1905) -- AUTOBIOGRAPHY SEVEN "Mental Hermaphrodite and Other Autobiographical Writings" by Charles Double (1905 -- PART THREE Literature, Medicine, and Self-Expression -- AUTOBIOGRAPHY EIGHT "The Novel of an Invert" by Anonymous (1889, 1896) -- Source Acknowledgments -- Notes.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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