...Eric O. Clarke Copyright © 1996 by Katie Gilmartin 1996 Tendencies . Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Durham: Duke UP, 1993. 281 + xvi pp. Works Cited Bisquier , Cele , “Untitled.” Unpublished manuscript. 1994 . O'Hara , Daniel , “Lentricchia's Frankness.” boundary 2 21.2...

...Henry Abelove In this brief memoir, the author describes his first meeting with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick when they discussed Anthony Trollope's fiction; a later meeting, when they discussed some early writings on gay history; the author's initial reaction to the publication of Between Men: English...

...Tyler Bradway This essay argues that Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's late-career turn toward positive affect is motivated by a desire to articulate an alternative ethical model to the governing paradigms of queer theory. Her ethics is premised on permeable intersubjectivity, based in the nonfoundational...

...Robert J. Corber Duke University Press 2005 COLD WAR FEMME Lesbian Visibility in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All about Eve Robert J. Corber In the final scene of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1950 Academy Award–winning film All about Eve, Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), the film’s manipulative...

...Rachel Walerstein Part reflection on my own attempt to endure the difficulty of reading (with) Eve Sedgwick, this essay is also an exploration of the way her article from the first issue of GLQ , “Queer Performativity: Henry James’s The Art of the Novel ,” unpacks the affective dimensions...

...Mary Zaborskis This essay looks at Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s contribution to the first issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies . I argue that Sedgwick’s piece indexes generational anxieties that have come to characterize queer studies. These anxieties come from an attempt to protect...

...Allen Durgin For the twenty-fifth anniversary of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies , this lyric essay returns to the first appearance of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s much-anthologized article “Queer Performativity: Henry James’s The Art of the Novel ” in the journal’s debut issue. Reading...

...Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Q U EE R P ER F 0 R MAT IVI TY HENRY JAMES‘S THE ART aF THE NovEL Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick I don’t remember hearing the phrase “queer performativity” used before, but it seems to be made necessary by, if nothing else, the work of Judith...

...Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick This essay, written in 1976–77, is concerned primarily with James Merrill's long poem “The Book of Ephraim,” which was published in 1976. The poem tells of many nights spent by Merrill and his partner, David Jackson, in communication with a spirit named Ephraim, whose messages...

... and their attendant modes of reading—for example, in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's essay “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading,” which compares rigid, knowing-in-advance interpretation with an affectively rich, temporally fluid hermeneutics. Reparative reading offers one way to understand Tribute to Freud , but H.D. can...

... about a boy's feelings for sport tells us considerably more than that about him. This article looks at the special role played by sport in what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once called “the war on effeminate boys” (1991). Following Sedgwick, the article considers how gendered ideas about sport and athleticism...

...H. A. Sedgwick This note summarizes what I know of the history of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's essay “The 1001 Seances.” I suggest that it was primarily as a poet herself that she was drawn to study and to write about the poetry of James Merrill, and I go on to suggest that her writing in this essay...

...Michael Moon Lesbian and gay studies was still in its academic infancy when Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick wrote her long-unpublished essay on James Merrill's long poem “The Book of Ephraim” (1976). Sedgwick's essay focuses on what she sees as the poem's fascinated concern with the administration...

...Kathryn R. Kent This essay places Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's later writings on poetry alongside her early unpublished piece “The 1001 Seances” to illustrate how the latter theorizes the connection between poetic form (and its relation to the novelistic) and male-male homoerotics. I then consider...

...Neil Hertz Some notes on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's relation to James Merrill's poetry, “paying particular attention” to the tilt of her head and the beauty and power of her own poetry. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Attention Neil Hertz Writing in the 1990s, in the opening poem...

...Anna Poletti This essay reconsiders the importance of performativity to scholarship on life writing by exploring the potential of Eve Sedgwick's concept of the periper-formative utterance for reading queer life narratives. Taking the documentary Tarnation (2003) as an example, I argue that a range...

... by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. A sustained reading of Sedgwick's poem “The Use of Being Fat” becomes the way through which this article argues for the possibility of a fat present/presence and the new fat hermeneutics required to notice the same. Queer theory will be left with two important methodological...

... of a structure of lesbian literary and erotic practices that is useful for thinking about lesbian literary history as well as its future. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s work on reparative reading and the school of queer optimism exemplified by José Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia undergird the approach to Victorian...

..., “Queers Read This! LGBTQ Literature Now” takes seriously how, why, and what queers read. Looking to both Eve Sedgwick’s foundational 1996 special issue of Studies in the Novel , as well as the work of Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Gloria Anzuldua, and other queer writers of color in the 1970s and 1980s...

...Heather Love This essay reflects on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s citation of Erving Goffman’s 1963 book Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity in her essay “Queer Performativity: Henry James’s The Art of the Novel ” (1993). I track Sedgwick’s attempt to wrest queer studies away from...