1st Edition

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

By Jason Edwards Copyright 2009
200 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was one of the most significant literary theorists of the last forty years and a key figure in contemporary queer theory. In this engaging and inspiring guide, Jason Edwards: introduces and explains key terms such as affects, the first person, homosocialities, and queer taxonomies, performativities and cusps considers Sedgwick’s poetry and textile art alongside... Read more

Why Sedgwick?  Key Ideas 1. Homos  2. Homosocialities  3. Epistemologies of the Closet  4. Queer Taxonomies  5. Queer Performativities  6. Queer Cusps  7. Affects  8. Autobiographies  After Sedgwick  Further Reading

Biography

Jason Edwards is a senior lecturer in the history of Victorian art at the University of York. He is the author of Alfred Gilbert’s Aestheticism: Gilbert Amongst Whistler, Wilde, Leighton, Pater and Burne-Jones (2006) and the co-editor of Joseph Cornell: Opening the Box (2007).