Borrowed Words - Translation, Imitation, and the Making of the 19th-Century Novel in Spain

Borrowed Words addresses the apparent paradox that underpins the processes of cultural production and consumption in mid-nineteenth-century Europe: the fact that nations at different narrative stages become contiguous literary markets. It focuses on translations and imitations of foreign literary models and on their role in setting up the bases of the bourgeois Spanish novel.

About the author

Elisa Martí-López earned her Ph.D at New York University and is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Northwestern University. She has published several articles on folletín, the literary market of the nineteenth-century novel in Spain, and literary history. She is currently working on representations of the city in nineteenth-century Spanish and Catalan fiction.

Summary

Borrowed Words addresses the apparent paradox that underpins the processes of cultural production and consumption in mid-nineteenth-century Europe: the fact that nations at different narrative stages become contiguous literary markets. It focuses on translations and imitations of foreign literary models and on their role in setting up the bases of the bourgeois Spanish novel.

Product details

• Authors: Mart, Elisa Marti-Lopez, Elisa Martí-López
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611481662
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-166-2
• No. of pages: 193
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 243 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies