 Author Colm Tóibín has said that Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's "Epistemology of the Closet" made a landmark difference to Jamesian scholarship by arguing that he be read as a homosexual writer whose desire to keep his sexuality a secret shaped his layered style and dramatic artistry.According to Tóibín such a reading "removed James from the realm of dead white males who wrote about posh people.He became our contemporary."