num_pages: 272
description: Argues that questions of sexual definition are at the heart of every form of literature, and discusses the writings of Melville, James, Wilde, and Proust
language: English
title: Epistemology of the Closet
titlecomplete: Epistemology of the Closet
genres: Gender, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Gender Studies, Theory, Academic, Queer, Nonfiction, Feminism, LGBT
ratings_count: 2177
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: James Russell Lowell Prize
publisher: University of California Press