TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sedgwick,Eve Kosofsky
TI  - Epistemology of the closet
SN  - 9780520254060 (PBK)
U1  - 813.306766 
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Male authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Homosexuality and literature
KW  - Gay men's writings
KW  - Gay men in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -