Between men : English literature and male homosocial desire / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ; foreword by Wayne Koestenbaum.
At the time of its first appearance in 1985 Between Men was viewed as an important intervention into Feminist as well as Gay and Lesbian studies. It was an important book because it argued that "sexuality" and "desire" were not a historical phenomenon but carefully managed social...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2016]
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| Edition: | Thirthieth anniversary edition. |
| Series: | Gender and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Homosocial desire ; Sexual politics and sexual meaning ; Sex or history? ; What this book does
- Ch. 1. Gender asymmetry and erotic triangles
- Ch. 2. Swan in love: the example of Shakespeare's sonnets
- Ch. 3. The country wife: anatomies of male homosexual desire
- Ch. 4. A sentimental journey: sexualism and the citizen of the world
- Ch. 5. Toward the Gothic: terrorism and homosexual panic
- Ch. 6. Murder incorporated: Confessions of a justified sinner
- Ch. 7. Tennyson's Princess: one bride for seven brothers
- Ch. 8. Adam Bede and Henry Esmond: homosocial desire and the historicity of the female
- Ch. 9. Homophobia, misogyny, and capital: the example of Our mutual friend
- Ch. 10. Up the postern stair: Edwin Drood and the homophobia of empire
- Coda: Toward the twentieth century: English readers of Whitman.