Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface

Name: Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface
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ISBN: 9780520254060

ISBN-10: 0520254066

ISBN-13: 9780520254060

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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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 acclaimedEpistemology 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…

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List price: $34.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwickis Distinguished Professor of English at City University of New York Graduate Center. Her books includeBetween Men, Tendencies, A Dialogue on Love,andTouching Feeling.



Acknowledgments


Credits


Preface to the 2008 Edition


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


Index