Lucy Hutchinson’s Sodom and the backward glance of feminist queer temporality

Abstract

Much recent feminist and queer theory wrestles with the question of temporality, often drawing on Lee Edelman’s rejection of futurity. In her treatments of Sodom, and especially Lot’s wife and daughters, Lucy Hutchinson offers new versions of feminist queer temporalities in the historically specific Renaissance languages of exemplarity and typology. Seen as forms of Elizabeth Freeman’s “temporal drag,” in which materials from the past help to denaturalize time, exemplarity and typology reveal multiple temporal frames, refusing the teleology usually associated with typology. The multiple temporalities of Order and Disorder – the exemplary lessons that readers ought to apply to their own lives, the typological fulfillment in which meaning becomes clear only later, and the lingering of poetic description and interpretation – demand a reconsideration of what history means.

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