Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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English

California Uni Pr Academc
17 January 2008

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Gay & Lesbian studies

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.

By: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Imprint: California Uni Pr Academc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780520254060
ISBN 10: 0520254066
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 17 January 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is Distinguished Professor of English at City University of New York Graduate Center. Her books include Between Men, Tendencies, A Dialogue on Love, and Touching Feeling.

Reviews for Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface

Close readings of Melville's Billy Budd, Wilde's Dorian Gray, and of Proust, Nietzsche, Henry James, and Thackeray bristle with keen observations relating entrenched fears of same-sex relationships to contemporary gay-bashing. * Publishers Weekly * To read (and reread) Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet is a rewarding experience. This text will shatter the framework through which you think about life. * Feminist Review * Brilliant . . . as a work of literary criticism, a cultural study, a political analysis, and as a landmark in the development of lesbian and gay studies. * Women's Review of Books * An important contribution to lesbian and gay studies. * The San Francisco Chronicle * Pioneering and rewarding. Sedgwick has zeroed in on the taboo area of male sexuality, and the architecture she exposes is stunning. * The Boston Globe * No book I have recently read is as successful as Sedgwick's in making provocative connections between literary acts and social dynamics. * The Nation *