Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface. Reading Sedgwick, then and now 1
4. Introduction. “An open mesh of possibilities” the necessity of eve Sedgwick in dark times 6
5. Note. From H. A. Sedgwick 34
6. 1. What survives 37
7. 2. Proust at the end 63
8. 3. For beauty is a series of hypotheses? Sedgwick as fiber artist 72
9. 4. In 92
10. 5. Early and earlier Sedgwick 113
11. 6. Eve’s future figures 121
12. 7. Sedgwick’s perverse close reading and the question of an erotic ethics 132
13. 8. On the eve of the future 141
14. 9. Race, sex, and the incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 152
15. 10. Sedgwick inexhaustible 166
16. 11. The age of Frankenstein 178
17. 12. Queer patience: Sedgwick’s identity narratives 189
18. 13. Weaver’s handshake: the aesthetics of chronic objects (Sedgwick, Emerson, James) 203
19. 14. Eighteen things i love about you 236
20. 15. Eve’s triangles: Queer studies beside itself 242
21. Afterword 274
22. Acknowledgments 279
23. Bibliography 281
24. Contributors 295
25. Index 299