Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire by Eve Kosofsky Sedgw

Description: Between Men by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Introducing a new generation to the book that changed humanities scholarship. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. With stunning foresight and conceptual power, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwicks work opened not only literature but also politics, society, and culture to broader investigations of power, sex, and desire, and to new possibilities of critical agency.Illuminating with uncanny prescience Western societys evolving debates on gender and sexuality, Between Men still has much to teach us. With a new foreword by Wayne Koestenbaum emphasizing the works ongoing relevance, Between Men engages with Shakespeares Sonnets, Wycherleys The Country Wife, Sternes A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Hoggs The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Tennysons The Princess, Eliots Adam Bede, Thackerays The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., and Dickenss Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, among many other texts. Its pathbreaking analysis of homosocial desire in Western literature remains vital to the future of queer studies and to explorations of the social transformations in which it participates. Author Biography Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009) was Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her books include Tendencies; A Dialogue on Love; Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity; The Coherence of Gothic Conventions; and Epistemology of the Closet. Wayne Koestenbaum is Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Table of Contents Foreword: The Eve Effect, by Wayne Koestenbaum Preface to the 1993 Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles 2. Swan in Love: The Examples of Shakespeares Sonnets 3. The Country Wife: Anatomies of Male Homosocial Desire 4. A Sentimental Journey: Sexualism and the Citizen of the World 5. Toward the Gothic: Terrorism and Homosexual Panic 6. Murder Incorporated: Confessions of a Justified Sinner 7. Tennysons Princess: One Bride for Seven Brothers 8. Adam Bede and Henry Esmond: Homosocial Desire and the Historicity of the Female 9. Homophobia, Misogyny, and Capital: The Example of Our Mutual Friend 10. Up the Postern Stair: Edwin Drood and the Homophobia of Empire Coda. Toward the Twentieth Century: English Readers of Whitman Notes Bibliography Index Review One of the most influential texts in gender studies, mens studies and gay studies. New York Times Book Review Groundbreaking... Between Men not only put Sedgwick on the map as a queer theorist, it helped to establish the field of queer literary analysis. -- Jane Hu Page-Turner blog, The New Yorker Strikingly relevant now. -- J. Bryan Lowder Slate Between Men will lead you into the small corners where vast plains open up-the perspective-defying, vertiginous angles that Sedgwick has the power to reveal with a density and graciousness that permit exaltation and inaugurate utopia. -- From the foreword by Wayne Koestenbaum Promotional 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. Sedgwicks landmark book remains a key analysis of homosocial desire in Western literature for any reader curious about the subjects claim to legitimacy. Long Description 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 politics, religion, society, and culture to broader investigations of power, desire, and sex. "Between Men" still has much more to tell us, and much work left to do. It has kept pace with Western societys evolving ideas of and debates on gender and sexuality and provides insight into its recent conservative and religious turns. With a new foreword by Wayne Koestenbaum emphasizing the works ongoing importance, Between Men begins with Shakespeares "Sonnets" and moves through Wycherleys "The Country Wife," Sternes "A Sentimental Journey," Hoggs "Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner," Tennysons "The Princess," Eliots "Adam Bede," Thackerays" The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.," and Dickenss "Our Mutual Friend" and" The Mystery of Edwin Drood," among many other texts and critiques. Sedgwicks landmark book remains a key analysis of homosocial desire in Western literature for any reader curious about the subjects claim to legitimacy. Review Quote Strikingly relevant now . Promotional "Headline" 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. Sedgwicks landmark book remains a key analysis of homosocial desire in Western literature for any reader curious about the subjects claim to legitimacy. Details ISBN0231176295 Author Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Publisher Columbia University Press Series Gender and Culture Series Year 2015 Edition 30th ISBN-10 0231176295 ISBN-13 9780231176293 Format Paperback Imprint Columbia University Press Subtitle English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Language English Media Book Residence NY, US DEWEY 820.9353 Pages 272 Short Title BETWEEN MEN -30TH ANNIVERSARY/ Publication Date 2015-11-24 Translated from English UK Release Date 2015-11-24 NZ Release Date 2015-11-24 US Release Date 2015-11-24 Edition Description Thirtieth anniversary edition Audience Undergraduate AU Release Date 2015-11-23 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:96595916;

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