ESPRIT CREATEURPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1353/esp.2022.0048
Nadrah Mohammed
{"title":"\"L'arbouse flamboyante que je fus\": Cultivating Womanhood in Taos Amrouche's Garden","authors":"Nadrah Mohammed","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0048","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article examines the construction of postcolonial womanhood through an ecocritical lens in Taos Amrouche'sSolitude ma mère. I focus on the three main ways the protagonist, Aména, considers vegetal being as a metaphor for womanhood: first, as a form of pure potential; second, as a mode of failure when blooming does not occur; and finally, as a re-appropriation of this failure, a feminist and indigenous form of refusal in a colonial context. Amrouche's use of gardening tropes invokes Romanticism and the pathetic fallacy, yet, as I show, Aména's lived experience as a racialized woman complicates Amrouche's novelistic assumptions.","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"135 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47225997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ESPRIT CREATEURPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1353/esp.2022.0046
Barbara Łuczak
{"title":"L'image de la femme-fleur dans les « prosimètres botaniques » de Louis Bernard de Montbrison et de Dargassies","authors":"Barbara Łuczak","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0046","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Cet article examine l'image de la femme-fleur dans les Lettres à Madame de C** sur la botanique et sur quelquessujets de physique et d'histoire naturelle (1802) de Louis Bernard de Montbrison, et Lettres à Anaïs sur la botanique (1825) de Dargassies. Les deux ouvragesjouent des ambiguïtésengendrées par, d'une part, l'analogie que les auteurs cherchent à établir entre la femme et la fleur, et, de l'autre, la représentation de la fleur en tant qu'organe de reproduction sexuée. L'étudedégage les traits majeurs de ce portrait \"végétal\" de la femme et met enévidencesacomplexité.","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"101 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44919476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ESPRIT CREATEURPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1353/esp.2022.0044
A. Shelford
{"title":"Loving the Botanist More Than Botany? The Emotional Dynamics of a Caribbean Intellectual Friendship, 1755–1766","authors":"A. Shelford","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0044","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article contributes to our understanding of eighteenth-century intellectual friendship by exploring the relationship between Benoît Aquart, a merchant in Martinique, and Nikolaus Jacquin, a Dutch physician who led a multi-year, Caribbean collecting expedition for the Holy Roman Empire in the 1750s. While demonstrating the importance of local informants like Benoît to metropolitan research projects, the article focuses especially on the friendship's emotional dimension, situating it in the histories of sensibility, sentiment, and sexuality.","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"71 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45612114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ESPRIT CREATEURPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1353/esp.2022.0052
Giulia Pacini
{"title":"Botaniste by Marc Jeanson and Charlotte Fauve (review)","authors":"Giulia Pacini","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"176 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66332871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ESPRIT CREATEURPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1353/esp.2022.0054
Antoinette Sol
{"title":"Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature by Tracy L. Rutler (review)","authors":"Antoinette Sol","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0054","url":null,"abstract":"a","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"178 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43525706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ESPRIT CREATEURPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1353/esp.2022.0047
Daisy Reid
{"title":"The (Wo)man-Plant: Pleasure, Passivity, and Resistance in Feminine Vegetal Becomings","authors":"Daisy Reid","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0047","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article examines eroticized woman-plant analogies within libertine texts and questions how becoming-plant both interfaces with, and enacts control over, feminine sexual subjects in and across Anglophone and Francophone contexts. First exploring feminine vegetal libertinism in Vincent Miller's The Man-Plant (1752) through Julien de la Mettrie's L'Homme-plante (1748), and then attending to the queerly desiring, plantlike body and the covert pleasures of its concealment in Anne Carson's poem \"The Albertine Workout\" (2014) through Marcel Proust's La prisonnière (1923), this article dwells upon a morbidly alluring becoming-plant that alternately espouses masculinist fantasies of possession and multiplies trajectories for oblique, feminine-vegetal sexual delights.","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"115 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42795648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ESPRIT CREATEURPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1353/esp.2022.0045
Sarah Benharrech
{"title":"Trees as Dividual Beings: From Vallemont's Multiplication of Willows to Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Corals","authors":"Sarah Benharrech","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0045","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article explores how empirical observations of trees' asexual reproduction challenged conceptions of plant individuality in eighteenth-century naturalist texts. The plant's ability to grow a whole individual from a cutting is the starting point of a dialogue between a Traveler and a Lady in Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's earliest publication. Rejecting the mechanistic model of the plant as a machine, the Traveler presents a fictional narrative echoing his vitalist and providential understanding of nature. After contextualizing the debate on vegetal uniqueness via analyses ofVallemont, Pluche, and Fontenelle, this study shows that Saint-Pierre temporarily reinvests the libertine imaginary of animate plants as a means of revivifying the vegetable kingdom.","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"100 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46237881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ESPRIT CREATEURPub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/esp.2022.0025
Matthew Spellberg
{"title":"Mrs. Nyman and Monsieur Proust: An Experiment in Comparative Literature","authors":"Matthew Spellberg","doi":"10.1353/esp.2022.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2022.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Leer, but ,","PeriodicalId":54063,"journal":{"name":"ESPRIT CREATEUR","volume":"62 1","pages":"140 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49262888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}