Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s article on Jane Austen is among the most celebrated and controversial in the history of Critical Inquiry. We reprint it here, along with a brief appreciation by CI Co-Editor Lauren Berlant.
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl"
Lauren Berlant, "Eve Sedgwick, Once More"
Other articles by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (requires JSTOR subscription):
Sexualism and the Citizen of the World: Wycherley, Sterne, and Male Homosocial Desire
Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins (with Adam Frank)

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick