Paperback, 278 pages
English language
Published Dec. 17, 2007 by University of California Press.
Epistemology of the Closet
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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.
Subjects
- Gay & Lesbian studies
- Literary Criticism
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Gay Studies
- Semiotics & Theory
- Literary Criticism & Collections / General