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Combining poetry, wit, polemic and dazzling scholarship these essays set new standards of passion for current theoretical writing. United in its vision of a new queer activism, Tendencies ranges through literature with a unique style.

At the time of her death in 2009, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was Distinguished Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center. Her many publications include A Dialogue On Love (Beacon, 1999), Fat Art/Thin Art (Duke, 1994), Tendencies (Duke, 1993), and Epistemology of the Closet (California, 1990).

Selections from Sedgwick's unpublished work, continuing her interest in affect theory, queer theory, Proust, her art and weavings, and her thoughts on Buddhism as she approached the end of her life.

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 se...

A collection of essays examining theories of affect and how they relate to issues of performance and performativity.

Tendencies" brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" ("Rolling Stone"). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness for current theoretical writing. , The essays range from Diderot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James to queer kids and twelve-step programs, fr...

This is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. Eve Sedgwick has brought together contributors to navigate this new terrritory through discussions of a wide range of British, French, and American novels--including canonical

Combining poetry, wit, polemic and dazzling scholarship these essays set new standards of passion for current theoretical writing. United in its vision of a new queer activism, Tendencies ranges through literature with a unique style.

First published in 1985, Between Men challenged old ways of reading while articulating critical byways for two emerging disciplines. Its iconoclastic approach gave queer studies and gender studies scholars further reason to crack open the canon, scrutinize its contents, and add unconventional texts on sound theoretical grounds. Striking a devastating blow to the hegemony of heteronormative critique, it opened not only literature but also polit...

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is best known as a cultural and literary critic, as one of the primary forces behind the development of queer and gay/lesbian studies, and as author of several influential books: Tendencies, Epistemology of the Closet, and Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. The publication of Fat Art, Thin Art, Sedgwick’s first volume of poetry, opens up another dimension of her continuing project of crossing and ...

Through discussions of a diverse array of British, French, and American novels, this collection of essays explores queer worlds of taste, texture, joy, and ennui, focusing on such subjects as flogging, wizardry, exorcism, dance, Zionist desire, and Internet sexuality.

Tendencies" brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" ("Rolling Stone"). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness for current theoretical writing. , The essays range from Diderot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James to queer kids and twelve-step programs, fr...

At the time of her death in after a long battle with cancer, Eve Sedgwick had been working on a book on affect and Proust, and on the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. This volume, edited by Jonathan Goldberg, brings together a collection of her last work.

A collection of essays examining theories of affect and how they relate to issues of performance and performativity.

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.

Fat Art, Thin Art" is a wrenchingly honest account--or enactment--of a writer's relation to her gift. . . . filled with hesitations, self-cancellations, erasures, and gratifying fireworks. The pleasure of "Fat Art, Thin Art" is witnessing Sedgwick discovering, again and again, the wonders--gorgeous shames and vindications--of what she can say."--Wayne Koestenbaum

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 w...