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Abstract:In her numerous romans à clef like La Marquise de Sade and Les Rageac, as well as her more explicitly autobiographical texts like Dans le puits and Face à la peur, Rachilde tells a series of anecdotes that underscore her deep investment in animal ethics. Throughout her autobiographical œuvre, Rachilde constructs her alter ego of the writerly loup-garou, whose zealous animal activism is determined by both her lupine kinship, as well as her Decadent aesthetic value system, which sees in the animal a radical individualism and a feral beauty that is at odds with the ugly, vivisecting brutality underlying positivist ideals. The present paper explores the parameters of her animal ethics, paying close attention to the ways in which her sympathy for animals aligns not only with her broader Decadent enterprise, but also a proto-ecofeminism invested in the blurring of gender and species-based hierarchical binaries.
摘要：在《萨德侯爵》（La Marquise de Sade）和《拉杰》（Les Rageac。在她的自传体作品中，Rachilde构建了她作为作家的另一个自我，她的热情的动物行动主义既由她的羽扇豆亲缘关系决定，也由她的颓废美学价值体系决定，该体系在动物身上看到了激进的个人主义和野性之美，这与实证主义理想背后丑陋的、活体解剖的残暴相矛盾。本文探讨了她的动物伦理参数，密切关注她对动物的同情不仅与她更广泛的“衰退”事业相一致，而且与一种原始生态女权主义相一致，这种女权主义致力于模糊基于性别和物种的等级二元。
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Nineteenth-Century French Studies provides scholars and students with the opportunity to examine new trends, review promising research findings, and become better acquainted with professional developments in the field. Scholarly articles on all aspects of nineteenth-century French literature and criticism are invited. Published articles are peer reviewed to ensure scholarly integrity. This journal has an extensive book review section covering a variety of disciplines. Nineteenth-Century French Studies is published twice a year in two double issues, fall/winter and spring/summer.
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