暗通款曲：明清艷情小說中的情欲與空間

Gender and Spatial Transgression: Desire and Space in Ming-Qing Erotica

黃克武(Max K. W. Huang)

《欲掩彌彰：中國歷史文化中的「私」與「情」─私情篇》 2003 (2003/09) Pp. 243-277

https://doi.org/10.29531/siqing.200309.0243

摘要

本文以《肉蒲團》、《癡婆子傳》與《浪史》為主要文本，探索明清時期豔情小說中情欲空間之區隔與逾越。這三個故事均發生在中下層的仕紳家庭的場景之中。在此情境下，人們一方面遵守禮教所規範的「男外女內」；另一方面又不斷地逾越此一界線。比較間接的逾越表現在以偷聽、偷窺來滿足己身視聽快感，比較直接的逾越則是「鑽穴踰牆」式的偷情。文本顯示：無論是已婚或未婚的男女都藉著各種的方式，尤其是依靠媒介人物的牽線與禮物與信物的交換，來逾越男女之防。從性別與空間逾越之中，我們得以釐清私密場域的範疇。在文本之中，情欲主體藉著此一私密空間的開創，將可能偷窺與偷聽的入侵者盡可能地排除在外，並將可以參與或旁觀者網羅在內。該私密空間的形成一方面依賴房門、牆壁、窗子、燈光控制、帷帳、床鋪、衣物等物質條件；另一方面則與男主人、妻妾、丫鬟、奴婢等所形成的仕紳家庭型態，有密不可分的關係。

關鍵字

《肉蒲團》 ； 《癡婆子傳》 ； 《浪史》 ； 情欲空間 ； 物質文化

並列摘要

Using three erotic novels written in the late Ming- ”The Carnal Prayer Mat” (Rou putuan), ”The Biography of a Slut” (Chi puozi zhuan), and ”The History of a Libertine” (Lang shi)-this paper examines how gender and spatial boundaries were ordered and transgressed in the late imperial era. The stories were set in the houses of middle or lower gentry who followed the ritual etiquette of confining women to the inner quarters on the one hand, and broke this rule in every possible way on the other. Transgressions occurred indirectly by peeping and eavesdropping, and directly by conducting affairs arranged through middle-persons and exchanging gifts and letters. The plots of these novels help us to identify a ”private” sphere of desire where people carried out their sexual activities. This sphere was constituted by the material background, such as doors, walls, lighting, cloth screens, beds, and clothes, as well as the common customs or lifestyle of the gentry class, which including sharing of sexual lives between male and female masters and servants.

並列關鍵字

"Rou putuan" ； "Chi puozi zhuan" ； "Lang shi" ； sphere of desire ； material culture