An Antidote to the French?: English Novels in German Translation and German Novels in English Translation 1770-99

Raven, James

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An Antidote to the French?: English Novels in German Translation and German Novels in English Translation 1770-99

James Raven¹

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“…As several recent scholars have claimed, French and English novels were developed in tandem in the 18th century, and translation from each language was central to this development (Cohen and Dever; Dow ‘Criss‐Crossing the Channel’; Martin; McMurran; Williams). Naturally, there were exceptions to this cross‐channel exchange: Hilary Brown, Jenny Mander and James Raven have all given accounts of prose fiction that travelled from Germany direct to England and vice versa (Brown; Mander ‘Foreign Imports’; Raven, ‘An Antidote to the French’). That said, for the majority of the century French, not English or German, was the dominant and mediating language.…”

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Translation, Cross‐Channel Exchanges and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Cross-channel exchanges in the rise of the novel in the long 18th century have become an emerging area of scholarly interest in the last decade, informed by new work on cultural exchanges and on translation theory, and earlier work on book history and reception studies. And yet this is an area that is yet to move beyond exceptional case studies of individual translations and translators, much less to fully articulate what is at stake for the study of the 18th-century novel, or indeed 18th-century studies more generally. This article traces the field from the mid-1970s to today, arguing that the study of women writers has been central to our growing recognition that the novel was shaped by pan-European and cross-channel exchanges and translation. It concludes by highlighting the main threat to the field: the dearth of language-learning. Translation -in the 18th century, and now -is thus presented as a political issue.[W]hat is of consequence is, I feel, not the individuality of any particular novel or story but the individuality of a French author or of fiction labelled "From the French" in the eyes of its contemporary readers and critics. Moreover, though it is tempting to speculate what the well-educated Englishman (or woman) thought of these novels as he perused them in the original, the fact is that the vogue existed because of the mono-lingual British reader who was more than happy, as evidence will show, to accept the translations as a welcome addition to his literary fare.(Grieder, ix)Comprendre la place, réelle aussi bien que symbolique, du texte traduit dans l'esthétique du dix-huitième siècle, envisager l'idée même de la traduction comme mode d'écriture, considérer l'approche de l'original dans son rapport aux notions d'origine et d'originalité, tels sont sans doute les grands traits du travail qui permettrait de donner à cette activité singulière toute la place qui lui revient dans l'histoire de la littérature du XVIII e siècle. (Charles, 147) Thirty years -not to mention the English Channel/La Manche -separates the publication of Josephine Grieder's book-length 1975 study Translations of French Sentimental Prose Fiction in late eighteenth-century England and Shelly Charles's chapter 'Traduire au XVIII e siècle' in a 2005 collection of essays The Eighteenth Century Now (Mallinson). Yet the position each author adopts is on the surface strikingly similar. Each claims that the novel is at the centre of 18th-century translation activity, each argues that a literary historian who is eager to understand the marketplace for fiction ignores the existence of novels in translation at his or her peril. Both point out that actual translations of novels have not been examined in all their intricacies. As much

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ArgumentLinking up with recent studies on the experience of space and place in modern youth literature, this article analyzes how the “journey” as a narrative line and motif transformed Dutch early modern travel books for children from classical teaching instruments into explorative knowledge places. In the popular seventeenth-century Glorious and Fortunate Journey to the Holy Land, young readers were invited to travel within the book, which was presented as a place that covers material pages to observe as well as imagined places to read about. Eighteenth-century travel books, for example written by Joachim Heinrich Campe, shifted from an inner to an empirical mode of travelling. They raised the suggestion that they offered unmediated observations and travel experiences, as if reading about places was equal to seeing places. Since travel literature facilitated active knowledge quisition among youngsters, but also left little room for autonomous innovations or different interpretations, this article reveals the emancipatory as well as restrictive character of such places of learning. By turning reading into a kind of travelling, travel books served as a substitute for travel.

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An Antidote to the French?: English Novels in German Translation and German Novels in English Translation 1770-99

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Translation, Cross‐Channel Exchanges and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century

Translation, Cross‐Channel Exchanges and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century

Mediated education in early modern travel stories: How travel stories contribute to children’s empirical learning

German Quixotism, or Sentimental Reading: Musäus's Richardson Satires

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