Epistemology of the Closet

Author/creator Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky Author
Other author American Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic
Edition2nd ed.,Revised
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press Ewing : California Princeton Fulfillment Services [Distributor]
Description280 p. 09.000 x 06.000 in.
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Summary Annotation 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 AIDS epidemic and its influence on the text.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 90035697
ISBN9780520254060
ISBN0520254066 (Perfect) Active Record
Standard identifier# 9780520254060
Stock number00027125

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