Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Between Men

English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines men's relationships with one another in English literature and the ways those relationships affect women. Central to this study is Sedgwick's conception of "male homosocial desire". She argues that the power of male homophobia has radically shaped the ideologies of men and women.

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Produktdetails

• Gender and Culture Series
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9780231082730
• ISBN-10: 0231082738
• Artikelnr.: 22219437

Autorenporträt

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is the author of Tendencies, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions, and Epistemology of the Closet.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
i. Homosocial Desire
ii. Sexual Politics and Sexual Meaning
iii. Sex or History?
iv. What This Book Does
1. Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles
2. Swan in Love: The Example of Shakespeare's 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. Tennyson's 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

Rezensionen

"One of the most influential texts in gender studies, men's studies and gay studies." -- Catharine R. Stimpson, New York Times Book Review