Lesbian Decadence

LESBIAN DECADENCE:
Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France

Golden Crown Literary Society Finalist

NICOLE E. ALBERT
Translated by Nancy Erber and
William Peniston

380 pages

Forward Indies Finalist

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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Nicole G. Albert is an independent scholar with a doctoral degree in comparative literature from the Sorbonne. She is the editor of Renée Vivien à rebours: études pour un centenaire [Renée Vivien Against the Grain: Studies for a Centenary] and Renée Vivien, une femme de lettres entre deux siècles [Renée Vivien: A Woman Writer between Two Centuries] as well as the author of La Castiglione: Vies et Métamorphoses [Castiglione: Lives and Metamorphoses].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.

 
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.