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.
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 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
