New Rules for Old Age: Gavarni, the Goncourts and Les Lorettes vieillies

IF 0.1 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE, ROMANCE
Rachel Skokowski
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This article examines caricaturist Paul Gavarni’s lithographic series Les Lorettes vieillies and Jules and Edmond de Goncourt’s short text La Lorette as two conflicting visions of the lorette, a type of nineteenth-century prostitute celebrated in literary and visual sources. The Goncourts’ text has previously been studied for its explicit aim to break the rules around representing the lorette; this essay argues, however, that Gavarni’s little-known images were in fact more radical. Exploring the ways in which Les Lorettes vieillies humanizes the experience of the ageing lorette, a taboo topic in other sources, this article shows how the series challenges society’s norms around age and gender. Finally, one should consider Les Lorettes vieillies, published at the same time and in the same newspaper as La Lorette, as an important intertext informing the Goncourts’ own presentation of the lorette as a transgressive figure.
老年生活新规:加瓦尔尼、龚古尔和洛雷特家族
本文考察了漫画家保罗·加瓦尼的平版版画系列《美丽的洛雷特》和儒勒和埃德蒙·德·龚古尔的短篇小说《洛雷特》,认为这是对洛雷特的两种相互矛盾的看法。洛雷特是一种19世纪的妓女,在文学和视觉资料中都很出名。龚古尔的文本此前曾被研究过,因为它的明确目的是打破围绕代表洛雷特的规则;然而,本文认为,加瓦尔尼鲜为人知的形象实际上更为激进。这篇文章探讨了《洛蕾特》如何将老年洛蕾特的经历人性化,这在其他来源中是一个禁忌话题,并展示了该系列如何挑战社会对年龄和性别的规范。最后,我们应该把与《洛雷特》同时发表在同一份报纸上的《洛雷特的观点》(Les loretttes vieillies)视为一个重要的互文,告诉龚古尔自己把洛雷特描绘成一个越界的人物。
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期刊介绍: The Australian Journal of French Studies is an international, fully refereed journal devoted to French literature, culture, society and history. The journal encourages new theoretical engagements and particularly welcomes interdisciplinary approaches. Articles are published in English and French. The majority of numbers are focussed on a specific theme, but numbers on miscellaneous topics will usually be published annually.
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