Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most influential texts in gender studies, men's studies and gay studies," this book uncovers the homosocial desire between men, from Restoration comedies to Tennyson's Princess.

Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (Gender and Culture)

Self-Help

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

Columbia University Press

First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. With stunning foresight and conceptual power, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's work opened not only literature but also politics, society, and culture to broader investigations of power, sex, and desire, and to new possibilities of critical agency. Illuminating with uncanny prescience Western society's evolving debates on gender and sexuality, Between Men still has much to teach us. With a new foreword by Wayne Koestenbaum emphasizing the work's ongoing relevance, Between Men engages with Shakespeare's Sonnets, Wycherley's The Country Wife, Sterne's A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Tennyson's The Princess, Eliot's Adam Bede, Thackeray's The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., and Dickens's Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, among many other texts. Its pathbreaking analysis of homosocial desire in Western literature remains vital to the future of queer studies and to explorations of the social transformations in which it participates.

Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (Gender and Culture Series)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire

The Coherence of Gothic Conventions (Gothic Studies and Dissertations)

Genre Fiction

Arno Pr

Cover is for the paperback copy, Tight Binding, Limited Chipping or Tears to Edges, No Markings or Creasing, Discoloration to lower parts of pages, back cover is scuffed, stamp on bottom edge of book,

The Coherence of Gothic Conventions (University Paperback, No 930)

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Argues that questions of sexual definition are at the heart of every form of literature, and discusses the writings of Melville, James, Wilde, and Proust

Epistemology of the Closet

University of California Press

History & Criticism

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.

Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface

A Dialogue On Love

When she begins therapy for depression after breast cancer treatment, the author brings with her an extraordinarily open and critical mind, but also shyness about revealing herself. Resisting easy responses to issues of dependence, desire, and mortality, she warily commits to a male therapist who shares little of her cultural and intellectual world. Although not without pain, their improvised relationship is as unexpectedly pleasurable as her writing is unconventional: Sedgwick combines dialogue, verse, and even her therapist's notes to explore her interior life--and delivers and delicate and tender account of how we arrive at love.

A Dialogue on Love

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Beacon Pr

When she begins therapy for depression after breast cancer treatment, the author brings with her an extraordinarily open and critical mind, but also shyness about revealing herself. Resisting easy responses to issues of dependence, desire, and mortality, she warily commits to a male therapist who shares little of her cultural and intellectual world. Although not without pain, their improvised relationship is as unexpectedly pleasurable as her writing is unconventional: Sedgwick combines dialogue, verse, and even her therapist's notes to explore her interior life--and delivers and delicate and tender account of how we arrive at love.

Beacon Press

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Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (Gender and Culture)

Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (Gender and Culture Series)

Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire

The Coherence of Gothic Conventions (Gothic Studies and Dissertations)

The Coherence of Gothic Conventions (University Paperback, No 930)

Epistemology of the Closet

Epistemology of the Closet

Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface

A Dialogue on Love

A Dialogue On Love