{"product_id":"epistemology-of-the-closet-updated-with-a-new-preface","title":"Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface","description":"\u003ch1\u003eEpistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface\u003c\/h1\u003eEve Kosofsky Sedgwick\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of California Press\u003cbr\u003eJanuary 17 2008\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780520254060\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0520254066\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: 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 \u003ci\u003eEpistemology of the Closet. \u003c\/i\u003eWorking 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. In her preface to this updated edition Sedgwick places the book both personally and historically, looking specifically at the horror of the first wave of the AIDS epidemic and its influence on the text.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44142433697837,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_37fa6426-24c3-45b7-93ff-1b67fcb00dfe.jpg?v=1764580809","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/epistemology-of-the-closet-updated-with-a-new-preface","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}