Between Men : English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, author.

Contributor:

Koestenbaum, Wayne.

Series:

Gender and culture.

Gender and Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Male authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

Homosexuality and literature--Great Britain--History.

Homosexuality and literature.

Masculinity in literature.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

Thirtieth anniversary edition

Other Title:

English literature and male homosocial desire

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. With stunning foresight and conceptual power, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's work opened not only literature but also politics, society, and culture to broader investigations of power, sex, and desire, and to new possibilities of critical agency.Illuminating with uncanny prescience Western society's evolving debates on gender and sexuality, Between Men still has much to teach us. With a new foreword by Wayne Koestenbaum emphasizing the work's ongoing relevance, Between Men engages with Shakespeare's Sonnets, Wycherley's The Country Wife, Sterne's A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Tennyson's The Princess, Eliot's Adam Bede, Thackeray's The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., and Dickens's Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, among many other texts. Its pathbreaking analysis of homosocial desire in Western literature remains vital to the future of queer studies and to explorations of the social transformations in which it participates.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Preface to the 1993 Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One. Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles

Chapter Two. Swan in Love: The Example of Shakespeare's Sonnets

Chapter Three. The Country Wife: Anatomies of Male Homosocial Desire

Chapter Four. A Sentimental Journey: Sexualism and the Citizen of the World

Chapter Five. Toward the Gothic: Terrorism and Homosexual Panic

Chapter Six. Murder Incorporated: Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Chapter Seven. Tennyson's Princess: One Bride for Seven Brothers

Chapter Eight. Adam Bede and Henry Esmond: Homosocial Desire and the Historicity of the Female

Chapter Nine. Homophobia, Misogyny, and Capital: The Example of Our Mutual Friend

Chapter Ten. Up the Postern Stair: Edwin Drood and the Homophobia of Empire

Coda. Toward the Twentieth Century: English Readers of Whitman

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-54104-X

OCLC:

1024044759