LESBIAN DECADENCE:
Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France
NICOLE E. ALBERT
Translated by Nancy Erber and
William Peniston
380 pages
25 b&w illustrations and 14 color illustrations
Cloth, $85.00 / £63.00 ISBN: 9781939594075
Paper, $40.00 / £30.00 ISBN: 9781939594204
E-book, $24.99 / £19.00 ISBN: 9781939594211
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ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS
Nancy Erber is professor emerita of linguistics and modern languages at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York. An expert in fin-de-siècle literature, she edited, along with George Robb, Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century.
William A. Peniston is the librarian and archivist at the Newark Museum, as well as a French historian with a doctoral degree from the University of Rochester. He is the author of Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth Century Paris.
Nancy Erber and William A. Peniston co-edited and co-translated Queer Lives: Men’s Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France and Bougres de vies: huit homosexuels du XIXe se racontent.