Epistemology of the closet
About this book
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
- à la recherche du temps perdu (proust, marcel)
- american fiction
- american fiction, history and criticism
- american fiction, history and criticism, 19th century
- american fiction--male authors--history and criticism
- billy budd (melville, herman)
- criticism and interpretation
- criticism and interpretationjames, henry , 1843-1916
- criticism and interpretationwilde, oscar , 1854-1900
- écrits d'hommes
- écrits d'homosexuels masculins
- fiction
- gay men in literature
- gay men's writings
- gay men's writings--history and criticism
- gays' writings
- gays' writings--history and criticism--theory, etc
- geschlechtsidentität
- histoire et critique
- history and criticism
- homoseksualiteit
- homosexualität
- homosexualitat <motiv>
- homosexualité dans la littérature
- homosexualité et littérature
- homosexuality and literature
- homosexuality in literature
- homosexuels masculins dans la littérature
- james, henry, 1843-1916
- kulturelles system
- letterkunde
- lgbtq
- lgbtq hiv/aids
- lgbtq queer theory
- literatur
- male authors
- melville, herman , 1819-1891
- melville, herman, 1819-1891
- men authors
- nietzsche, friedrich wilhelm , 1844-1900
- nietzsche, friedrich wilhelm, 1844-1900
- open_syllabus_project
- proust, marcel , 1871-1922
- proust, marcel, 1871-1922
- queer
- queer theory
- roman
- théorie
- theory
- wilde, oscar, 1854-1900