Shame, Theatricality and Queer Performativity: Henry lames's The Art of the Novel

This text is part of a chapter from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's monograph on Henry James, Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. It concerns shame understood as an affect that forms the identity of queer/other subjects but not only: shame also forms the constitutive moment of every identity, facilitating intersubjectivity and communication.