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As revisionist studies have recently shown in the wake of Gérard Genette’s Seuils (1987), editorial paratexts in translated works, such as prefaces and illustrations, are valuable documents for capturing the ideological parameters which early modern publishers and translators had to skilfully exploit to promote their work. A case in point is the little known yet important eighteenth-century collection of framed-novelle Les Journées amusantes (1722–31) by Madeleine-Angélique Poisson de Gomez (1684–1776). Through the lens of intertextuality and intericonicity, this article offers a two-part analysis of the paratextual material (verbal and visual) contained in the foreign editions of this work. It evaluates the strategies which ‘image-makers’ used to ensure the legitimacy of a text which was originally written by a woman. In particular, it highlights transnational instances of dialogic interplay and cultural transfer, allowing for a better understanding of the female writer’s status across Europe and revealing the cultural and pedagogical parts which translators, publishers and engravers played in the formation of eighteenth-century European readerships.
Original language | English |
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Article number | cqad055 |
Pages (from-to) | 565 - 597 |
Journal | Forum for Modern Language Studies |
Volume | 59 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 22 Dec 2023 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- Enlightenment
- feminism
- paratexts
- illustration
- translation
- gender
- intericonicity
- cultural transfer
- Eliza Haywood
- Luise Gottsched
- Pietro Chiari
- Gaspar Zavala y Zamora
- Baltazar Driguet
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Learning to see the power of women in Europe and to from the Renaissance to the Present
8/09/16 → …
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
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Paratextual Material in the European Editions of Madeleine-Angelique de Gomez’s 'Les Journées amusantes'
Severine Genieys-Kirk (Invited speaker)
25 Apr 2018Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Severine Genieys-Kirk
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures - Senior Lecturer
Person: Academic: Research Active