Queer Lives : Men's Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France.

By: Peniston, William AContributor(s): Erber, Nancy | Peniston, William AMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (293 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780803215733Subject(s): Gay men -- France -- Biography | Gay men -- France -- History -- 19th century | Male homosexuality -- France -- Case studiesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Queer Lives : Men's Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century FranceDDC classification: 306.76/62092244 | B LOC classification: HQ76.2.F8 -- Q44 2007ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
Summary: 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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Intro -- 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.

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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