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- Title
The "hour of pink twilight": Lesbian Poetics and Queer Encounters on the Fin-de-siècle Street.
- Authors
FLINT, KATE
- Abstract
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 uncertainties. 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.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; SAME-sex relationships; TWILIGHT in literature; MEW, Charlotte Mary, 1869-1928; LESBIANS in literature; LESBIANISM in literature; HISTORY of homosexuality; VICTORIAN Period, Great Britain, 1837-1901; EIGHTEENTH century; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Studies, 2009, Vol 51, Issue 4, p687
- ISSN
0042-5222
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.2979/VIC.2009.51.4.687