The Weather in Proust

At the time of her death in after a long battle with cancer, Eve Sedgwick had been working on a book on affect and Proust, and on the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. This volume, edited by Jonathan Goldberg, brings together a collection of her last work.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950–2009) was Distinguished Professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Epistemology of the Closet, Between Men, and A Dialogue on Love. Her books Touching Feeling; Tendencies; Fat Art, Thin Art; Novel Gazing; Gary in Your Pocket; and Shame and Its Sisters (co-edited with Adam Frank), are all also published by Duke University Press. Jonathan Goldberg is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Studies in Sexualities Program at Emory University. He is the author, most recently, of The Seeds of Things.

Editor's Introduction xiii
The Weather in Proust 1
Cavafy, Proust, and the Queer Little Gods 42
Making Things, Practicing Emptiness 69
Melanie Klein and the Difference Affect Makes 123
Affect Theory and Theory of Mind 144
Anality: News from the Front 166
Making Gay Meanings 183
Thinking through Queer Theory 190
Reality and Realization 206
Figure Credits 217
Index 219