The “hour of pink twilight”
Lesbian Poetics and Queer Encounters on the Fin-de-siècle Street
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10867486 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Flint Flint (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 687 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-5222 • E-ISSN: 1527-2052 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/vic.2009.51.4.687 |
| PMID | 20210042 |
| OpenAlex | W2086009615 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 4 |
This essay examines the cultural representation of women's encounters on the fin-de-siècle street and, in particular, the uncertainties that clustered around the possibilities of mutual, or one-sided, same-sex desire accompanying such meetings. It argues, through an examination of lyric poetry, paintings, and short fiction, for the usefulness of twilight--a time of shadowy ambiguity--as a trope to suggest these uncertainities. More than this, it maintains that the lyric and the developing genre of the short story were modes ideally suited to an invocation of the fluid, the uncertain, and the unnamable. This argument is advanced through a close reading of Charlotte Mew's strange short story "Passed," which is read as representative of a transitional moment in lesbian literary history
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Fin de siecle · Invocation · Lesbian · Literature · Narrative · Poetics · Poetry · Queer · Reading (process · Representation (politics · Sociology · Trope (literature · Twilight · Anthropology · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Short Stories in Global Literature
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |