- History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Theory, Gay men in literature
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.
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Character-led, grave, contemplative and prestige.
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 265
- Publisher
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, University of California Press, Ideya press
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780520254060
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