Thread Name: Gautier expurgation From: "Gordon Neavill" <aa3401@removed> Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 11:17:23 -0400 The ML edition of Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin published in 1918 was bowdlerized. The ML used the translation first published in London by Vizetelly & Co. in 1887. Following the sentence in chatper 16, "He took up the fair one in his arms and bore her to the couch", the Vizetelly edition prints three lines of asterisks. Each line of asterisks represents an omitted paragraph. ML printings included the three lines of asterisks until 1935, when "One of Cleopatra's Nights" was added to the ML edition. By then, the recent Ulysses decision had opened the door to more explicit descriptions of sex in literary works, and Cerf and Klopfer commissioned a translation of the omitted paragraphs. The new content appears on pp. 289-90 of Mademoiselle de Maupin & One of Cleopatra's Nights. -------------------------------------