Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: 23 books
The Wedding Complex
Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2002
In The Wedding Complex Elizabeth Freeman explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. Freeman finds that weddings—as performances, fantasies, and rituals of transformation—are sites for imagining and enacting...
Queer Iberia
Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 1999
Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers comprise the fascinating mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia. The essays in this volume describe and analyze the sexual diversity that proliferated during the period...
by Jonathan Goldberg, Michèle Aina Barale, Michael Moon
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2001
After many years as one of the premier scholars of English Renaissance literature, Jonathan Goldberg turns his attention to the work of American novelist Willa Cather. With a focus on Cather’s artistic principle of “the thing not named,” Willa Cather and Others illuminates the contradictions...
Making Girls into Women
American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2003
Making Girls into Women offers an account of the historical emergence of "the lesbian" by looking at late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century women's writing. Kathryn R. Kent proposes that modern lesbian identity in the United States has its roots not just, or even primarily, in sexology...
Getting Medieval
Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1999
In Getting Medieval Carolyn Dinshaw examines communities—dissident and orthodox—in late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth-century England to create a new sense of queer history. Reaching beyond both medieval and queer studies, Dinshaw demonstrates in this challenging work how intellectual inquiry...
by Carla Freccero, Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
In Queer/Early/Modern, Carla Freccero, a leading scholar of early modern European studies, argues for a reading practice that accounts for the queerness of temporality, for the way past, present, and future time appear out of sequence and in dialogue in our thinking about history and texts. Freccero...
Working Like a Homosexual
Camp, Capital, Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2002
What does camp have to do with capitalism? How have queer men created a philosophy of commodity culture? Why is cinema central to camp? With chapters on the films of Vincente Minnelli, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, and John Waters, Working Like a Homosexual responds to these questions by arguing that...
The Misfit of the Family
Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
In more than ninety novels and novellas, Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) created a universe teeming with over two thousand characters. The Misfit of the Family reveals how Balzac, in imagining the dense, vividly rendered social world of his novels, used his writing as a powerful means to understand...
Foundlings
Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2001
What is it like to “feel historical”? In Foundlings Christopher Nealon analyzes texts produced by American gay men and lesbians in the first half of the twentieth century—poems by Hart Crane, novels by Willa Cather, gay male physique magazines, and lesbian pulp fiction. Nealon brings these diverse...
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