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Jane Austen in Switzerland : a study of the early french translations

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Jane Austen's novels are among the best-loved in all of English literature.
They are read and admired by a large audience in the English-speaking world,
uniting highbrow criticism and popular culture. In the French-speaking world,
on the other hand, Jane Austen is relatively unknown. Her novels may have
been available in translation since the beginning of the nineteenth century,
but French readers remain largely unaware of her canonical status in her own
culture. She is for them the charming author of some pleasant romantic novels,
but hardly a serious writer. A great novelist in the view of English and
American literary criticism, she is little more than a quintessentially English
spinster for French readers. Focusing on the early moment of the French
reception of Austen's work, this book charts the origin of this discrepancy.

Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park were the first of Austen's novels to
appear in French in a periodical called the Bibliothèque Britannique, published
in Geneva between 1796 and 1815. The editors of the Bibliothèque
Britannique
aimed at the dissemination of British material over the continent.
In their hands novels were trimmed to become suitable reading for "mothers
and daughters". A translation of Sense and Sensibility and then of Persuasion
soon followed. These were the work of Isabelle de Montolieu, a rather
formidable literary figure in the French book trade of the early nineteenth century.
From her house near Lausanne, the baronne Isabelle de Montolieu, as
she was known, made a living out of her numerous adaptations from German
and English fiction, which she knew how to transform in order to please
French readers. Her name and reputation were to eclipse those of Jane Austen
for a long while.

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Authors , Valerie Cossy, Valérie Cossy, COSSY VALERIE, Valérie Cossy
Publisher Slatkine Erudition
 
Languages French
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 02.05.2006
 
EAN 9782051019637
ISBN 978-2-05-101963-7
No. of pages 336
Weight 640 g
Series Travaux sur la Suisse des Lumieres
Travaux sur la Suisse des Lumières, n° 1
TRAVAUX SUR LA SUISSE DES LUMIERES
Travaux sur la Suisse des Lumières, n° 1
Travaux sur la Suisse des Lumières
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)

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