The Immoralist (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Ahmida, Ali Abdulolatif, ed., Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism in the Maghrib: History, Culture, and Politics, Palgrave, 2000.

  Ahmida provides a collection of critical essays by various authors on the history, culture, and politics of North Africa and Egypt in the nineteenth century.

• Barnes, David S., The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France, University of California Press, 1995.

  Barnes offers a cultural, medical, and socioeconomic history of tuberculosis in France during the nineteenth century.

• Benjamin, Roger, Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism and French North Africa, 1880 – 1930, University of California Press, 2003.

  Benjamin discusses the influence of North African culture on French art during the period of the French colonial occupation.

• Fryer, Jonathan, André & Oscar: Gide, Wilde, and the Gay Art of Living, Constable, 1997.

  Fryer examines the friendship between André Gide and Oscar Wilde in terms of homosexual identity and lifestyles during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

• Hayes, Jarrod, Queer Nations: Marginal Sexualities in the Maghreb, University of Chicago Press, 2000.

  Hayes examines representations of homosexuality in North African literature.

• Merrick, Jeffrey, and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr., eds., Homosexuality in Modern France, Oxford University Press, 1996.

  Merrick and Ragan provide a collection of essays on the history of homosexuality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France.

• Walker, David, André Gide, Macmillan, 1990.

  Walker provides a critical analysis of narrative techniques in Gide's novels.