Format:
Online-Ressource (xix, 270 p)
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ill
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22 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2008 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0803260369
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9780803260368
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-270)
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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)
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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)
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Source AcknowledgmentsNotes
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803260368
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Queer Lives : Men's Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France
Language:
English
