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

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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 ...more
Paperback , 292 pages
Published January 1st 2008 by University of Nebraska Press (first published January 1st 2007)
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