01612cam a2200265 a 4500 TB12450 IN-BhIIT 20250806163215.0 900330s1990 cau b s001 0 eng 9780520254060 (PBK) IN-BhIIT eng 813.306766 SED/E Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Author 26096 Epistemology of the closet / by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1990. xi, 258 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. American fiction Male authors History and criticism. 26097 Homosexuality and literature. 26098 Gay men's writings History and criticism 26231 Gay men in literature. 26100 TB 14647 14647 0 0 ddc 0 0 GEN CLIITBBS CLIITBBS 2025-03-07 52 2201.56 0 813.306766 SED/E TB12450 2025-03-07 00:00:00 3015.84 2025-03-07 TB