Mary Wollstonecraft’s Translational Afterlife: French and German Rewritings of <i>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</i> in the Revolutionary Era

Kirkley, Laura

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“…Gibbels (2004), Everard (2017), and Rønning (2019) have analysed the earliest German, Dutch, and Danish versions of Rights of Woman. Wollstonecraft's arguments for women's rights were often attenuated in translation but, whilst it is tempting to disparage her early translators as deliberate or deluded agents of patriarchy, close reading of their texts and receptions suggests that they attempted, not to sabotage Wollstonecraft's feminism, but to find ways of articulating it without attracting censorship or alienating target readerships (Kirkley, 2022b).…”

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“…Bour's pioneering research on Revolutionary French translations of Wollstonecraft's works (Bour, 2004(Bour, , 2013 recently culminated in a thrilling forensic analysis of the circumstances and textual peculiarities of the first French version of Rights of Woman, which confidently attributes the translation to Félicité Brissot and its annotations to collaboration with her husband, the leading Girondist Jacques-Pierre Brissot (Bour, 2022). My articles on the first French translation of Wrongs of Woman (Kirkley, 2015) and on early French and German translations of Rights of Woman (Kirkley, 2022b) examine the different ideological agendas and imagined audiences that shaped the transformation of Wollstonecraft's feminism as it crossed national and linguistic boundaries. Gibbels (2004), Everard (2017), andRønning (2019) have analysed the earliest German, Dutch, and Danish versions of Rights of Woman.…”

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Across disciplines, languages, and nations: Recent scholarship on Mary Wollstonecraft

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2022

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In the last 4 decades, Mary Wollstonecraft has been brought from the margins of Western literary history to assume her place as a feminist foremother, radical icon, and familiar meme. As the range of disciplinary responses to Wollstonecraft's writing expands, our knowledge is deepening of her intellectual landscapes and her local and transnational networks. Diversification of expertise has also led to closer, interdisciplinary scrutiny of her works, including texts that have previously suffered neglect because of their apparent irrelevance to her feminism. Researchers increasingly recognise her transnational outlook, and this recognition has prompted intersectional reflections on her feminist legacy in the wake of Brexit and Black Lives Matter. A growing body of criticism is also revising the longstanding myth of her posthumous invisibility after the publication of Godwin's Memoirs, drawing attention to the persistent engagement with her works by key thinkers during the nineteenth century as well as her multiple afterlives in translation.

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Towards a Gendered, Decentred History of Cultural Mediation in the Eighteenth Century

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2024

New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800

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How can transnational and global perspectives on the Enlightenment and approaches that take gender as a standpoint fertilise each other? This volume aims at doing so by exploring women’s contributions to cultural mediation and the ways in which notions of gender circulated and were transformed, hybridised and creatively appropriated in contextualised and material forms. The introduction considers previous scholarship on eighteenth-century travel, translation and cultural circulation, and on women’s participation in intellectual and cultural life, to propose new avenues for research that expand the geography of Enlightenment to cover Southern Europe and the Hispanic world. It also highlights how examining debates about women’s “nature” from Madrid and Paris to Mexico and Peru (and the other way round), and looking at the roles of women of letters, travellers, translators, readers, owners of books and agents in multilingual epistolary networks provide fresh knowledge on the workings of transnational and transoceanic exchanges, and the obstacles and limits to circulation and mobility.

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Mary Wollstonecraft’s Translational Afterlife: French and German Rewritings of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in the Revolutionary Era

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Across disciplines, languages, and nations: Recent scholarship on Mary Wollstonecraft

Across disciplines, languages, and nations: Recent scholarship on Mary Wollstonecraft

Towards a Gendered, Decentred History of Cultural Mediation in the Eighteenth Century

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