Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface
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.
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Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface
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.
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Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface

Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface

by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface
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Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface

Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface

by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520254060
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 01/17/2008
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (May 2, 1950 – April 12, 2009) was a poet, artist, literary critic and teacher. She is perhaps best known as one of the originators of Queer Theory. Her work and her example continue to have a significant effect in shaping the lives and thought of many people.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 
Credits 
Preface to the 2008 Edition 
Introduction: Axiomatic 
I. Epistemology of the Closet 
2. Some Binarisms (I)
Billy Budd: After the Homosexual 
3· Some Binarisms (II)
Wilde, Nietzsche, and the Sentimental Relations
of the Male Body 
4· The Beast in the Closet
James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic 
5· Proust and the Spectacle of the Closet 
Index
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