Professional Translators in Nineteenth-Century France

This book shines a light on the practices and professional identities of translators in nineteenth-century France, speaking to the translatorial turn in translation studies which spotlights translators as active agents in the international circulation of texts.

List of contents

Introduction
1 The Emergnce of a Mass Market for Translation
2 Tracing an Emergent Discourse of Translatorial Labour
3 Tracing Translators in Publishers’ Archives
4 Developing a Legal Framework for the Nineteenth-Century French Literary Translation Market
5 The Economic Lives of Nineteenth-Century Women Translators
6 The Life and Career of Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconprêt, Inventor of the “Lingual Steam Engine”
Coda
Appendix: Translators and Transactions in the Institut mémoires de l’édition contemporaine archives

About the author

Susan Pickford is Head of the English unit at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Summary

This book shines a light on the practices and professional identities of translators in nineteenth-century France, speaking to the translatorial turn in translation studies which spotlights translators as active agents in the international circulation of texts.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Pickford, Pickford Susan
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032001791
• ISBN: 978-1-032-00179-1
• No. of pages: 228
• Weight: 594 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Research on Translation and Interpreting History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, France, European History, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / France, Social & cultural history, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, HISTORY / Historiography, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Historiography, Translation & interpretation, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Translation and interpretation