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  • Maurice in London

    by Xavier-Marcel Boulestin, Nancy Erber ...
    In 1909, Les Fréquentations de Maurice was serialized in the pages of Akademos and eventually published by a Parisian press in 1912 under the name Sydney Place, a pseudonym for Xavier-Marcel Boulestin, a famed French chef, restaurateur, and the author of cooking books. This is the first English translation of the work.After an exhausting time decorating his new apartment, Maurice Vendal has grown ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Language of the Conquerors

    When Amerindians Spoke Latin in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

    by Serge Gruzinski ...
    Translated by Nancy Erber ...
    One of the most decisive and irreversible consequences of the Spanish conquest of the Americas was the alphabetic revolution which changed the forms of communication in indigenous societies. Writing, paper and books arrived in the Americas with the conquistadors and they were used as weapons by the Spanish to subjugate local populations and impose Christianity on them.The written word of the ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Lesbian Decadence

    Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France

    by Nicole Albert ...
    Translated by Nancy Erber, William Peniston ...
    In 1857 the French poet Charles Baudelaire, who was fascinated by lesbianism, created a scandal with Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil]. This collection was originally entitled "The Lesbians" and described women as "femmes damnées," with "disordered souls" suffering in a hypocritical world. Then twenty years later, lesbians in Paris dared to flaunt themselves in that extraordinarily creative ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Italian Invert

    A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions to Émile Zola

    Edited by Michael Rosenfeld ...
    “Each of us has his tastes inscribed in his brain and heart; whether he fulfills his urges with regret or with joy, he must fulfill them. He should let others act according to their own nature. It’s fate that creates us and guides us throughout our lives: to fight against it would be little more than fruitless, foolish, and reckless!”In the late 1880s, a dashing young Italian aristocrat made an ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A History of Fatigue

    From the Middle Ages to the Present

    by Georges Vigarello ...
    Translated by Nancy Erber ...
    "Stress," "burn out," "mental overload": the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of the meaning of fatigue. The tentacles of exhaustion insinuated themselves into every aspect of our lives, from the workplace to the home, from our relationships with friends and family to the most intimate aspects of our lives. All around us are the signs of a "burn-out ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • The Italian Invert

    A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions to Émile Zola

    Edited by Michael Rosenfeld ...
    “Each of us has his tastes inscribed in his brain and heart; whether he fulfills his urges with regret or with joy, he must fulfill them. He should let others act according to their own nature. It’s fate that creates us and guides us throughout our lives: to fight against it would be little more than fruitless, foolish, and reckless!”In the late 1880s, a dashing young Italian aristocrat made an ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Lesbian Decadence

    Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France

    by Nicole Albert ...
    Translated by Nancy Erber, William Peniston ...
    In 1857 the French poet Charles Baudelaire, who was fascinated by lesbianism, created a scandal with Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil]. This collection was originally entitled "The Lesbians" and described women as "femmes damnées," with "disordered souls" suffering in a hypocritical world. Then twenty years later, lesbians in Paris dared to flaunt themselves in that extraordinarily creative ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • February House

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  • The Homoerotics of Orientalism

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