Italian Invert - A Gay Mans Intimate Confessions to Emile Zola

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.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Prologue, by Cyrille Zola-Place
Foreword to the French Edition, by Alain Pagès
Foreword to the American Edition, by Vernon A. Rosario
Introduction: The Ménage-à-Trois of Zola, Saint-Paul, and the Italian “Invert,” by Michael Rosenfeld with Nancy Erber
Part I: The Confessions of a Homosexual to Émile Zola
Preface by Émile Zola
The Novel of an Invert
The Sequel to the Novel of an Invert
Other Particularities
The Italian Man’s Family Tree, by Michael Rosenfeld
Part II: Selected Works by Dr. Georges Saint-Paul
Dr. Georges Saint-Paul, Man of Science, by Clive Thomson
First Edition (1896)
In Memoriam: Émile Zola
Second Edition (1910)
Third Edition (1930)
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Rosenfeld
• Assisted by: Michael Rosenfeld (Editor), Nancy Erber (Translation), Erber Nancy (Translation), William Peniston (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9780231204897
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20489-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Assisted by: William Peniston
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Western, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Gay Studies (Gay Men), SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, social science; history; LGBTQ+