“Une école des mœurs &amp; de la morale”: How the Wouters Sisters made English Theater French

Klaus, Carrie F.

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“…With her sister Marie, she produced several translations from English works, notably several theater plays and a history of famous men ("Le Plutarque Anglois"). Her translated plays contain a few adaptations to suit the taste for more formal language of the French public: for example, she softened rude language or direct sexual allusions (Klaus, 2007a). She also left some manuscripts popularizing natural sciences or chemistry (Collective, 1827: 257) although they seem lost today.…”

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Two Proto-Science-Fiction Novels Written in French by Eighteenth Century Women

Nazé¹

2021

J. Astron. Hist. Herit.

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With Cyrano, Voltaire, and Verne, France provided important milestones in the history of early science fiction. However, even if the genre was not very common a few centuries ago, there were numerous additional contributions by French-speaking writers. In this paper, we review two cases of interplanetary novels written in the second half of the eighteenth century and sharing a rare particularity: their authors were female. Voyages de Milord Céton was imagined by Marie-Anne de Roumier-Robert whereas Cornélie Wouters de Wasse conceived Le Char Volant. While their personal lives were very different, and their writing style too, both authors share in these novels a common philosophy in which equality-between ranks but also between genders-takes an important place. Their works thus clearly fit into the context of the Enlightenment.

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“…Her work nearly fully fell into oblivion during the twentieth century (Berditchevsky, 1990: 18; see, however, a mention of Char Volant in the bibliography of von Braun and Ordway, 1966: 227). However, there seems to have been a resurgence of interest in her work in recent years (Gevrey, 2020;Klaus, 2004;2007a;2007b).…”

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Two Proto-Science-Fiction Novels Written in French by Eighteenth Century Women

Nazé¹

2021

J. Astron. Hist. Herit.

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The Gender of Pseudotranslation in the Works of Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, Mme Beccari and Cornélie Wouters

Vanacker¹

2018

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While authorship recognition was a challenge for all eighteenth-century aspiring writers regardless of their gender, the social position of women was such that public claims of authorship and ownership over a text were even less self-evident in the public sphere. As will be illustrated in this article, female writers especially made extensive use of transfer strategies (such as translation and pseudotranslation) to establish their authorship, thereby turning paratext and narrative into a dynamic maneuvering space. Considered from a gender perspective, the challenge for eighteenth-century female writers was to gradually “invent” themselves, or rather establish a voice of their own. Taking on a different (cultural) persona—even if only on a paratextual level—could provide them with a discursive “platform” from which they could negotiate their way into the literary field. In order to illustrate this gender-specific emancipatory quality of pseudotranslation, as established mainly in their paratexts, the present article proposes a comparative analysis of their forms and functions in the career and oeuvre of three eighteenth-century French women writers, Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, Mme Beccari and Cornélie de Wouters, who all made extensive use of pseudo-English fiction.

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“Une école des mœurs & de la morale”: How the Wouters Sisters made English Theater French

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Two Proto-Science-Fiction Novels Written in French by Eighteenth Century Women

Two Proto-Science-Fiction Novels Written in French by Eighteenth Century Women

The Gender of Pseudotranslation in the Works of Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, Mme Beccari and Cornélie Wouters

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