Les Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens publient depuis 1974 deux numéros par an, l’un sur des sujets et écrivains variés, l’autre consacré à un auteur ou à un thème. Les Cahiers s’intéressent non seulement à la littérature, mais aussi à tous les aspects de la civilisation de l’époque, et accueillent des méthodes critiques variées. Ils publient aussi des comptes rendus d’ouvrages et des résumés de thèses récemment soutenues sur le sujet. Des articles peuvent être soumis en vue d’une publication éventuelle (règles de présentation du M.L.A. Handbook).

Cahiers Victoriens and Edouardiens has been publishing two issues per year since 1974, one focusing on various topics and writers, and the other dedicated to a specific author or theme. The journal is interested not only in literature but also in all aspects of the civilization of the period, welcoming a variety of critical methods. It also publishes book reviews and summaries of recently defended theses on the subject. Articles may be submitted for potential publication following the guidelines of the M.L.A. Handbook.

《Cahiers Victoriens and Edouardiens》自1974年起每年出版两期，其中一期涵盖多种主题和作家，另一期专注于某位作者或特定主题。该期刊不仅关注文学，还探讨了维多利亚和爱德华时代的各个方面，采用多种批评方法。期刊还会刊登书评和最近完成的论文摘要。作者可以根据M.L.A. Handbook的格式提交文章以供考虑发表。

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Les formes et les pratiques populaires de lecture et d’écriture sont une dimension essentielle, et pourtant relativement méconnue, des époques victorienne et édouardienne. Le colloque annuel de la SFEVE en 2009 avait pour objet la polarité entre cultures savante et populaire (voir CVE n°71), mais le recueil d’articles rassemblés dans ce volume 95 des Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens se penche sur les productions populaires en soi, et pour elles-mêmes. Les contributions proviennent de communications présentées lors du séminaire en ligne du 29 janvier 2021 (et d’articles lui faisant suite), organisé en remplacement du colloque international annuel de la SFEVE, initialement prévu à l’Université Paris Est Créteil les 29-30 janvier, et malheureusement annulé pour cause de pandémie. Sous l’égide de chercheurs pionniers en la matière tels que Richard Altick, Jonathan Rose ou David Vincent (l’introduction présentant l’état actuel de la recherche sur la question), ces articles visent à montrer comment ces pratiques d’écriture populaire permettent aux voix « mineures » de « personnes ordinaires », humbles, ou peu considérées (mineurs, ouvriers, détenus, ou simples touristes de la classe ouvrière, par exemple), de se faire entendre, de s’affirmer, d’éveiller les consciences, de renforcer les liens communautaires, et dans certains cas de promouvoir la cause chartiste. Il s’agira donc ici d’étudier des textes écrits (notamment dans la presse périodique), non seulement pour, mais surtout par, les classes populaires, devenues les agents, et non les objets du discours. Ce numéro contient également trois articles issus de l’atelier de la SFEVE du Congrès de la SAES qui s’est tenu virtuellement en juin 2021 à l’Université de Tours sur le thème « Renaissances ». Popular forms and practices of reading and writing represent an essential, albeit relatively little known, dimension of the Victorian and Edwardian periods. In 2009, the SFEVE annual conference had focused on the polarity between highbrow and lowbrow cultures (see CVE n°71), but the essays gathered here, in volume 95 of the Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, address popular productions as such and for their own sakes. This collection is the result of presentations at the online seminar of 29 January 2021, and of essays written subsequently. This seminar was organized to replace the international annual SFEVE conference, initially scheduled to take place on 29–30 January 2021 at Université Paris Est Créteil, and unfortunately cancelled because of the pandemic. In the wake of the pioneering works on the popular by Richard Altick, Jonathan Rose or David Vincent—the introduction reviewing the present state of research in the field—the essays purport to show how these popular writing practices enable the ‘minor’ voices of humble, disregarded, ‘ordinary people’ (such as miners, manual workers, prison inmates or mere working-class tourists) to be heard, assert themselves, awake social and political awareness, strengthen the sense of belonging to a community, and in some cases, advance the Chartist cause. Therefore, the contributions will explore texts written (particularly for the periodical press), not only for, but above all by, the popular classes, thereby empowered as the agents, and not merely the objects, of the discourse about them. The volume also contains three articles focusing on the subject of ‘Renaissances’ from the online SFEVE workshop at the 2021 SAES Conference in Tours.

Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens

Victorian Popular Forms and Practices of Reading and Writing/Renaissances

维多利亚时代流行的阅读和写作形式与实践/文艺复兴

Of the New Woman writers who wrote humour, Ella D'Arcy is one of the more elusive. Her humorous writing takes the form of satire which depends on a double reading. A straightforward reading of her stories sympathizes with her male protagonists engaging in unsuitable romances and bad marriages. A resisting reading, however, shows these men as egotistical fools whose efforts to set the terms of their romances backfire. D'Arcy's double reading is dependent on her audience and therefore was rarely appreciated by her mostly male reviewers. Through her letters to her publisher John Lane, we also see how this doubleness informed her relationships with him and Henry Harland, the editor of The Yellow Book and D'Arcy's employer and friend. Humour was not just a mode in D'Arcy's writing, but a strategy in her job and particularly in her relationships with editor Henry Harland and publisher John Lane. Her letters to Lane, housed at the Clark Library at the University of California, Los Angeles, reveal an Austenian humour that was D'Arcy's protection against these men's capricious behaviours. We see D'Arcy adopting this ironic pose as she tries to keep The Yellow Book on schedule in the aftermath of Oscar Wilde's arrest, and as she copes with Harland's regular tantrums and Lane's indifference. This paper explores the double readings of her stories and their connection to D'Arcy's work at The Yellow Book.

Heather Marcovitch

White Magic, Black Humour: Ella D’Arcy’s Narrative Strategies

白魔法，黑幽默：埃拉·达西的叙事策略

Cornelius Crowley

Stefano Evangelista, Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle, Citizens of Nowhere

斯蒂法诺·埃万杰利斯塔，《英国世纪末的文学世界主义：无国籍公民》

Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

Béatrice Laurent, Water and Women in the Victorian Imagination

比阿特丽斯·洛朗，维多利亚时代想象中的水与女性

Le magazine Punch a très largement contribué à façonner la figure de la Nouvelle Femme dans l'imaginaire populaire. Les études critiques mettent habituellement l'accent sur ses descriptions misogynes d'une Nouvelle Femme « revêche et qui ne sait pas se taire » (26 mai 1894, 252). Toutefois, à côté de ces satires, on trouve aussi des contributions d'autrices dont certaines peuvent elles-mêmes être qualifiées de Nouvelles Femmes. Nous examinerons ici deux de ces contributions, publiées dans Punch à dix ans d'intervalle par des femmes engagées dans la défense de la cause féminine : le poème « The Reason Why » (1898) de Rosaline Masson et la nouvelle « The Wreck of "The Ark" » (1909) d'Evelyn Sharp. Il s'agira d'examiner comment ces autrices remettent en cause les stéréotypes véhiculés par Punch sans critiquer ouvertement ce magazine, puis d'étudier leur choix stratégique de ce magazine afin de toucher un lectorat large. Nous montrerons comment, tout en publiant dans un périodique qui les prenait régulièrement pour cibles, ces « New Women » indépendantes et intelligentes ont utilisé l'humour à leur avantage et infléchi de manière significative la représentation des femmes dans un magazine influent qui ne doit pas être réduit à ses satires et caricatures les plus connues.

Katy Birch

‘I roll my cigarette, and cycle to my club’: Playing with Stereotypes and Subverting Anti-Feminism in New Woman Writers’ Contributions to Punch

“我卷起香烟，骑车去俱乐部”：新女性作家在《笨拙》杂志中的贡献：玩味刻板印象与颠覆反女权主义

Annie Besant published several autobiographical texts from 1878, starting with the preface to My Path to Atheism, when she was vice-president of the National Secular Society. Her first autobiography, Autobiographical Sketches, appeared in book form in 1885, the year she joined the Fabian Society, a decision she justified in 1886 with Why I Am a Socialist. When Besant converted to Theosophy in 1889, she wrote Why I Became a Theosophist, and her revised autobiography, Annie Besant: An Autobiography, was published in 1893, preceded by 1875 to 1891: A Fragment of Autobiography. Meanwhile, Besant penned her first biography of the Renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno in 1876, a short sketch published in The National Reformer, the NSS weekly. She wrote a more detailed Story of Giordano Bruno, in 1884-5, at the time she joined the Socialist revival. Her fascination with Bruno took a new dimension from 1889, when she embraced the Theosophists' belief in reincarnation: she had come to the conclusion that she had been Bruno in a past life when she lectured on Giordano Bruno: the Man and the Teacher in 1898, and delivered Le Message de Giordano Bruno au Monde moderne, in the Sorbonne in 1911. No study of Besant's writings on Bruno has ever been published. So, this paper explores the reasons why Annie Besant wrote four biographies of Giordano Bruno between 1876 and 1911. It retraces her personal and spiritual evolution through an analysis of her biographies of Bruno as occult autobiographies, that transgress gender boundaries, and pursue the legitimization strategies developed by Besant in her openly autobiographical texts.

Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière

‘Rents in the Veil of Time’: Annie Besant’s Auto-biographies of Giordano Bruno

“时间面纱中的租金”：安妮·贝赞特的乔尔达诺·布鲁诺自传

Claire Bazin

Alexandra Lewis, The Brontës and the Idea of the Human. Science, Ethics and the Victorian Imagination

亚历山德拉·刘易斯，《勃朗特姐妹与人类观念：科学、伦理与维多利亚时代的想象力》

Department stores, in the second half of the nineteenth century, can be characterised as spaces with multiple functional identities. Retailers aimed to maximise potential sales through a combination of innovative display, modernised architecture, and the curation of customers’ movement, which promoted increased sales opportunities by assistants. In large stores, where sales figures were the only indicator of success, assistants were under pressure to ‘never allow a lady to leave without a sale’. Women, however, were inclined to view department stores as leisure spaces, respectable enough to be visited without an escort. This duality of function, with department store interiors existing simultaneously as sales floor and leisure space, appears to have resulted in tension between sales staff and customers. Drawing on the extensive literature focused on spatial archaeologies of eighteenth-century retail interiors, this article considers the department store as an extension of earlier shopping practice, drawing links between the private pseudo-domestic parlours of the Georgian shop and the refreshment rooms of the department store. It is shown that the creation of subdivided interiors allowed for the separation of retail and leisure space, allowing for the easing of tension between staff and customer, and demonstrating a continuation of the retail owner as peer and host for the customer.

Kate Morris

Dualities of Function: Archaeological Approaches to the Study of Movement and Space within the late‒Victorian Department Store

功能的双重性：考古学方法在研究维多利亚晚期百货商店中的运动与空间中的应用

In the eighteenth century, meat became strongly associated with English national identity and was often used in discourses about national differences. This article seeks to analyze how, from the 1840s to WWI, the development of food chemistry—a science then primarily concerned with the importance of proteins—contributed to strengthening this discourse. The article thus shows how science gave a renewed legitimacy to discourses establishing strong fault lines and hierarchies between different peoples or ‘races’, depending on their diets. The second part of the article shows, however, the evolutions and complex uses of this scientific discipline which eventually contributed to a relative weakening of ideas linking a meat diet and national or racial supremacy.

Abbreviation	Cah. Victor. Edouardiens.
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Publication Information	Publisher: Les Amis d'Acarologia，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: Yes
Basic data	Year of publication: 2002，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:0.00%， Gold OA Rate: 77.08%
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