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
History and criticismCriticism and interpretationTheoryGay men in literatureHomosexuality and literatureAmerican fictionGays' writingsMale authorsFictionGay men's writingsMen authorsHomosexuality in literatureHomosexualitat <Motiv>Romanopen_syllabus_projectLiteraturHomosexualitätMelville, herman, 1819-1891James, henry, 1843-1916Wilde, oscar, 1854-1900Proust, marcel, 1871-1922Nietzsche, friedrich wilhelm, 1844-1900American fiction, history and criticismAmerican fiction, history and criticism, 19th century