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Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface : Updated with a New Preface / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, author.
- Series:
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Billy Budd.
- Melville, Herman.
- James, Henry, 1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation.
- James, Henry.
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wilde, Oscar.
- Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922. À la recherche du temps perdu.
- Proust, Marcel.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.
- Fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 258 p. )
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1990]
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Credits
- Preface to the 2008 Edition
- Introduction: Axiomatic
- I Epistemology of the Closet
- 2. Some Binarisms (I)
- 3 Some Binarisms (II)
- 4 The Beast in the Closet
- 5 Proust and the Spectacle of the Closet
- Index
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: 1990.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780520934481
- 0520934482
- OCLC:
- 1457221549
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb30582 hdl
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