Note: Most of the citations on this page were drawn from the bibliographies of Lawrence R. Schehr’s The Third Sex (Urbana and Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2007; a translation of Willy’s Le Troisième sexe ) and French Gay Modernism (Urbana and Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2004). These citations are included here with the gracious permission of the University of Illinois Press.
General Studies of Modern Gay Literature
Edelman, Lee. Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory. New York: Routledge, 1994. (UIUC English Library Call Number: 810.9 ED27H)
Everdell, William R. The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. (UIUC History, Philosophy & Newspaper Library c.1 Temporarily Shelved at History, Philosophy & Newspaper Call Number: 190.904 EV24F)
Rosario, Vernon A. The Erotic Imagination: French Histories of Perversity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 306.70944 R712E)
Schehr, Lawrence R. Alcibiades at the Door: Gay Discourses in French Literature. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995. (UIUC Modern Languages Library Call Number: 840.9 SCH242A)
Schehr, Lawrence R. French Gay Modernism. Urbana: University of Illinois, 2004. (UIUC History, Philosophy & Newspaper Library and Modern Languages Library Call Number: 840.93 Sch24f)
Schehr, Lawrence R. “Interpreting Proustian Interpretation.” In The Shock of Men: Homosexual Hermeneutics in French Writing. Stanford University Press, 1995. (UIUC Modern Languages Library Call Number: 840.9 SCH242S)
On François Augieras
Berthier, Philippe. François Augieras: L’apprenti sorcier. Cognac: Le temps qu’il fait, 1990. (UIUC Modern Languages Library c.1 Temporarily Shelved at Modern Languages Call Number: 846 Au42DB461)
Lontin, Annick. Pour François Augieras. Lyon : Bibliothèque municipale; Cognac: Le Temps qu’il fait, 1990. (On order for UIUC)
Richard, E. François Augieras: les années de formation, 1940-1950. Paris: Paris-Méditerranée, 2005. (On order for UIUC, via Approval Plan)
Verner, Joel. François Augieras: l’aventurier radical. Paris: J.M. Place, 2004. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 846 Au42DV595)
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Epistemology of the Closet. Berkelely: University of California Press, 1990. (UIUC English Library Call Number: 813.09 SE28E)
On Francis Carco
Chabanaix, Philippe. “Francis Carco.” Revue des Deux Mondes 1 (1968):344-51.
On or By Jean Cocteau
Borgal, Clément. Jean Cocteau ou de la claudication considérée comme l’un des beaux-arts. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1989. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 845 C64DB64J)
Cocteau, Jean. Journal 1942-1945. Paris: Gallimard, 1989. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 845 C64BC64JO)
Cocteau, Jean. Lettres à Jean Marais. Paris: Albin Michel, 1987. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 845 C64CM324)
Cocteau, Jean. Lettres à Milorad. 2d ed. Paris: Le cherche midi Editeur (Editions Saint-Germain-des-Prés_), 1975. (UIUC Oak Street Facility [request only] Call Number: 845 C64CM63)
Cocteau, Jean. Le Passé défini. 3 vols. Paris: Gallimard, 1983-89. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 845 C64BC64PA)
Cocteau, Jean. Mon premier voyage (tour du monde en 80 jours). Paris: Gallimard, 1936. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 910.4 C64M3)
Gerke, Daniel. “Ruin, Style, and Fetish: The Corpus of Jean Cocteau.” Nottingham French Studies 32, no. 1 (1993): 10-18. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 840.9 N84)
Macris, Pierre. “L’ange et Cocteau.” Revue des Lettres Modernes 298-303 (1972): 71-90. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 805 REVD)
Steegmuller, Francis. Cocteau: A Biography. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 845 C64DS81)
On or By Colette
Bonmariage, Sylvain. Willy, Colette, et moi. Paris: Anagramme, 2004. (UIUC holds a 1954 Frémanger edition of this title at Main Stacks Call Number: 845 C67BB64)
Colette. Mes apprentissages. Paris: Hachette, 1936. Oeuvres. Vol I. Paris: Gallimard [Pléiade], 1984. (UIUC holds a 2004 Livres de poche edition of this title at Main Stacks Call Number: 845 C67BC67m2004)
On Georges Eekhoud
Eekhoud, Georges. Georges Eekhoud: un illustre uraniste. Lille: Gai-Kitsch-Camp, 1996. (On order for UIUC)
On Gustave Flaubert
Redman, Harry. Le côté homosexuel de Flaubert: essai. [Gouy?]: A L’Ecart, 1991. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 845 F612BR248)
Schehr, Lawrence R. Flaubert and Sons: Readings of Flaubert, Zola, and Proust. New York: Peter Lang, 1986.
On or By André Gide
Gide, André. Journal 1887-1925. Paris: Gallimard (Pléiade), 1996.
Gide, André. Souvenirs et voyages. Paris: Gallimard, 2001. (UIUC Modern Languages Library Call Number: 845 G35BG35s)
Lucey, Michael. Gide’s Bent: Sexuality, Politics, Writing. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 845 G35DL963)
Segal, Naomi. André Gide: Pederasty and Pedagogy. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 845 G35DSe37 and Modern Languages Library Call Number: 845 G35DSe37a)
Un aspect de la querelle André Gide et Eugène Montfort: Une enquête de la revue Les Marges; Mars-Avril 1926. Lille: Cahiers Gai-Kitsch-Camp, 1993. (In cataloguing at UIUC)
On Abel Hermant
Thérive, André. Essai sur Abel Hermant. Paris: Le Livre, 1926. (On order for UIUC)
On Pierre Loti (pseudonym for Julien Viaud)
Berrong, Richard M. In Love with a Handsome Sailor: The Emergence of Gay Identity and the Novels of Pierre Loti. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. (UIUC Modern Languages Library Call Number: 845V65DB459)
On Pierre Menard
Borges, Jorge Luís. “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote.” In Collected Fictions . Trans. Andrew Hurley. New York: Viking Penguin, 1998. 88-95.
On Marcel Proust
Deleuze, Gilles. Proust et les signes. 4th ed. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1976. (UIUC Modern Languages Library Call Number: 845 P94DD371976)
de Man, Paul. Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1979. (UIUC Modern Languages Library Call Number: 809 D39A)
Doubrovsky, Serge. La Place de la madeleine: Ecriture et voyeurisme dans A la recherche du temps perdu. Paris: A.-G. Nizet, 1988. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 845 P94DD74)
Dubois, Jacques. Pour Albertine: Proust et le sens du social. Paris: Seuil, 1997. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 845 P94OAYDU)
Erman, Michel. L’OEil de Proust: Ecriture et voyeurisme dans A la recherche du temps perdu. Paris: A.-G. Nizet, 1988. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 845 P94OAYER)
Infantino, Stephen C. Photographic Vision in Proust. New York: Peter Lang, 1992. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 845 P94OAYIN)
Ladenson, Elisabeth. Proust’s Lesbianism. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 845 P94OaYla)
Ladenson, Elisabeth. “Rereading Proust: Perversion and Prolepsis in A la recherche du temps perdu ” Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading. Ed. David Galef. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999. 249-65. (UIUC English Library Call Number: 801.95 Se24)
Pouquet, Jeanne-Maurice. Le Salon de Madame Arman de Caillavel. Ses Amis. Anatole France. Cmdt Rivière. Jules Lemaître. Pierre Loti. Marcel Proust. Etc…etc… Paris: Hachette, 1926. (UIUC Modern Languages Kolb-Proust Archive Call Number: 845 C12CP86)
Rivers, J.E. Proust and the Art of Love. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 845 P94DR524)
Schehr, Lawrence R. “Interpreting Proustian Interpretation.” In The Shock of Men: Homosexual Hermeneutics in French Writing. Stanford University Press, 1995, p. 33 sq. (UIUC Modern Languages Library Call Number: 840.9 SCH242S)
Shattuck, Roger. Proust’s Binoculars: A Study of Memory, Time, and Recognition in A la recherche du temps perdu. New York: Random House, 1963. (UIUC Main Stacks and Modern Languages Library Call Number: 845 P94OAYSH)
Splitter, Randolph. Proust’s Recherche: A Psychoanalytical Interpretation. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 845 P94OAYSP)
On Rachilde
Dauphiné, Claude. Rachilde. Paris: Mercure de France, 1991. (UIUC Main Stacks c.1 Temporarily Shelved at Modern Languages Library Call Number: 845 V243BD267r)
Hawthorne, Melanie and Liz Constable. “Introduction.” Rachilde. Monsieur Vénus: A Materialist Novel. New York: MLA, 2004. (UIUC Modern Languages Library Call Number: 845 V243Om2004)
Hawthorne, Melanie. Rachilde and French Women’s Authorship: From Decadence to Modernism. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2001. (UIUC Modern Languages Library Call Number: 845 V243BH318)
Holmes, Diana. Rachilde: Decadence, Gender, and the Woman Writer. Oxford: Berg, 2002. (UIUC Modern Languages Library Call Number: 845 V243DH734)
Tegyey, Gabriella. L’inscription du personnage dans les romans de Rachilde et de Marguerite Audoux. Debrecen: Kossuth Lajos Tudományegyetem, 1995.
On Willy
Caradec, François. Feu Willy avec et sans Colette. Paris: Carrère/Pauvert, 1984. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 845 W687BC17)
Caradec, François. Willy. Le Père des Claudine. Paris: Fayard, 2004. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 845 G238BC175)
Willy. Souvenirs littéraires … et autres. Paris: Editions Montaigne, 1925. (UIUC Main Stacks Call Number: 840.9 G22s; new edition at 840.9 G22s2007)