Lauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, coauthor of The Hundreds and author of Cruel Optimism, both also published by Duke University Press.

“Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's writing remains indispensable, never more so than now when the light of her intelligence illuminates a darkening horizon. We need her intelligence, her queer sensibility, and her way with words. Reading Sedgwick will be welcome both for those encountering her for the first time and as a reprise for those wishing to be reminded of her work's particular charm, enlivening curiosity, and power.” - Christina Crosby, author of (A Body, Undone: Living on after Great Pain) "This volume is required reading in queer studies. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." - D. M. Jarrett (Choice)

• Preface. Reading Sedgwick, Then and Now / Lauren Berlant  1Introduction. "An Open Mesh of Possibilities": The Necessity of Eve Sedgwick in Dark Times / Ramzi Fawaz  6Note. From H. A. Sedgwick / H. A. Sedgwick  341. What Survives / Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman  372. Proust at the End / Judith Butler  633. For Beauty Is a Series of Hypotheses? Sedgwick as Fiber Artist / Jason Edwards  724. In / Denis Flannery  925. Early and Earlier Sedgwick / Jane Gallop  1136. Eve's Future Figures / Jonathan Goldberg  1217. Sedgwick's Perverse Close Reading and the Question of an Erotic Ethics / Meredith Kruse  1328. On the Eve of the Future / Michael Moon  1419. Race, Sex, and the Incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick / JosÉ Esteban MuÑoz  15210. Sedgwick Inexhaustible / Chris Nealon  16611. The Age of Frankenstein / Andrew Parker   17812. Queer Patience: Sedgwick's Identity Narratives / Karin Sellberg  18913. Weaver's Handshake: The Aesthetics of Chronic Objects (Sedgwick, Emerson, James) / Michael D. Snediker  20314. Eighteen Things I Love about You / Melissa Solomon  23615. Eve's Triangles: Queer Studies Beside Itself / Robyn Wiegman  242Afterword / Kathryn Bond Stockton  274Acknowledgments  279Bibliography  281Contributors  295Index  299

Lauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, coauthor of The Hundreds and author of Cruel Optimism, both also published by Duke University Press.

“Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's writing remains indispensable, never more so than now when the light of her intelligence illuminates a darkening horizon. We need her intelligence, her queer sensibility, and her way with words. Reading Sedgwick will be welcome both for those encountering her for the first time and as a reprise for those wishing to be reminded of her work's particular charm, enlivening curiosity, and power.” - Christina Crosby, author of (A Body, Undone: Living on after Great Pain) "This volume is required reading in queer studies. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." - D. M. Jarrett (Choice)

• Preface. Reading Sedgwick, Then and Now / Lauren Berlant  1Introduction. "An Open Mesh of Possibilities": The Necessity of Eve Sedgwick in Dark Times / Ramzi Fawaz  6Note. From H. A. Sedgwick / H. A. Sedgwick  341. What Survives / Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman  372. Proust at the End / Judith Butler  633. For Beauty Is a Series of Hypotheses? Sedgwick as Fiber Artist / Jason Edwards  724. In / Denis Flannery  925. Early and Earlier Sedgwick / Jane Gallop  1136. Eve's Future Figures / Jonathan Goldberg  1217. Sedgwick's Perverse Close Reading and the Question of an Erotic Ethics / Meredith Kruse  1328. On the Eve of the Future / Michael Moon  1419. Race, Sex, and the Incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick / JosÉ Esteban MuÑoz  15210. Sedgwick Inexhaustible / Chris Nealon  16611. The Age of Frankenstein / Andrew Parker   17812. Queer Patience: Sedgwick's Identity Narratives / Karin Sellberg  18913. Weaver's Handshake: The Aesthetics of Chronic Objects (Sedgwick, Emerson, James) / Michael D. Snediker  20314. Eighteen Things I Love about You / Melissa Solomon  23615. Eve's Triangles: Queer Studies Beside Itself / Robyn Wiegman  242Afterword / Kathryn Bond Stockton  274Acknowledgments  279Bibliography  281Contributors  295Index  299

Lauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, coauthor of The Hundreds and author of Cruel Optimism, both also published by Duke University Press.

“Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's writing remains indispensable, never more so than now when the light of her intelligence illuminates a darkening horizon. We need her intelligence, her queer sensibility, and her way with words. Reading Sedgwick will be welcome both for those encountering her for the first time and as a reprise for those wishing to be reminded of her work's particular charm, enlivening curiosity, and power.” - Christina Crosby, author of (A Body, Undone: Living on after Great Pain) "This volume is required reading in queer studies. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." - D. M. Jarrett (Choice)

• Preface. Reading Sedgwick, Then and Now / Lauren Berlant  1Introduction. "An Open Mesh of Possibilities": The Necessity of Eve Sedgwick in Dark Times / Ramzi Fawaz  6Note. From H. A. Sedgwick / H. A. Sedgwick  341. What Survives / Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman  372. Proust at the End / Judith Butler  633. For Beauty Is a Series of Hypotheses? Sedgwick as Fiber Artist / Jason Edwards  724. In / Denis Flannery  925. Early and Earlier Sedgwick / Jane Gallop  1136. Eve's Future Figures / Jonathan Goldberg  1217. Sedgwick's Perverse Close Reading and the Question of an Erotic Ethics / Meredith Kruse  1328. On the Eve of the Future / Michael Moon  1419. Race, Sex, and the Incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick / JosÉ Esteban MuÑoz  15210. Sedgwick Inexhaustible / Chris Nealon  16611. The Age of Frankenstein / Andrew Parker   17812. Queer Patience: Sedgwick's Identity Narratives / Karin Sellberg  18913. Weaver's Handshake: The Aesthetics of Chronic Objects (Sedgwick, Emerson, James) / Michael D. Snediker  20314. Eighteen Things I Love about You / Melissa Solomon  23615. Eve's Triangles: Queer Studies Beside Itself / Robyn Wiegman  242Afterword / Kathryn Bond Stockton  274Acknowledgments  279Bibliography  281Contributors  295Index  299