Michael Rosenfeld, William Peniston, Nancy Erber

Broschiertes Buch

The Italian Invert

A Gay Man's Intimate Confessions to Emile Zola

Herausgeber: Rosenfeld, Michael / Übersetzer: Erber, Nancy; Peniston, William

Beschreibung

In the late nineteenth century, a young Italian aristocrat made an astonishing confession: In a series of revealing letters, he frankly described his sexual experiences with other men. This is the first complete, unexpurgated version in English of this remarkable queer autobiography.

Autor

Michael Rosenfeld holds two doctorates, one in French literature and civilization from the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 and one in French language and literature from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. William A. Peniston is the librarian and archivist emeritus at the Newark Museum of Art, as well as a historian of France. His books include Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris (2004). Nancy Erber is professor emerita of modern languages and literature at the City University of New York. With Peniston, she edited and translated Queer Lives: Men's Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France (2007).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780231204897
• ISBN-10: 0231204892
• Artikelnr.: 62112023