Notes on Camp

Susan Sontag's short volume gathers two essays that examine camp, a sensibility that finds delight in the exaggerated, the theatrical and the unintentionally ridiculous. Sontag treats taste that is usually dismissed as trivial with real seriousness, and her approach helped blur the line between high art and popular culture. The essays brought her wide notice and established her as a major voice in criticism.

This edition belongs to Penguin Modern, a fifty-volume series of compact books that reissues key twentieth-century writing from the Penguin Modern Classics catalogue, with each title presenting one author's work in a small format.