Epistemology of the closet / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky.
2008
PS374.H63 S42 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Epistemology of the closet / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
Author Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky.
Edition Updated with a new preface [ed.].
ISBN 9780520254060 (pbk.)
0520254066 (pbk.)
Imprint Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2008.
Language English
Description xviii, 258 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number PS374.H63 S42 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.3935309034
Summary Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in no small degree, to the influence of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed Epistemology of the Closet. Working from classic texts of European and American writers - including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde - Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientation became as important a demarcation of personhood as gender had been for centuries. In her preface to this updated edition Sedgwick places the book both personally and historically, looking specifically at the horror of the first wave of the AIDS epidemic and its influence on the text.
Note "A Centennial book".
Previous ed.: 1990.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: Axiomatic
Epistemology of the Closet
Some Binarisms (I): Billy Budd: After the Homosexual
Some Binarisms (II): Wilde, Nietzsche, and the Sentimental Relations of the Male Body
The Beast in the Closet: James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic
Proust and the Spectacle of the Closet.

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