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041			_aeng
082	0	0	_a813.306766 _bSED/E
100	1		_aSedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. _eAuthor _926096
245	1	0	_aEpistemology of the closet / _cby Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
260			_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _cc1990.
300			_axi, 258 p. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aSince 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.
650		0	_aAmerican fiction _xMale authors _xHistory and criticism. _926097
650		0	_aHomosexuality and literature. _926098
650		0	_aGay men's writings _xHistory and criticism _926231
650		0	_aGay men in literature. _926100
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