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George Ferzoco
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Preliminary Call for Papers
Literary Migrations: Translation and Adaptation in C18th Britain and Europe
Day conference Saturday 14th May 2005
The eighteenth century was a period of political and geographical expansion on a new scale. It facilitated a culture of consumption and of the importation/exportation of goods and fashions, as much recent work has shown.
Advances in both print and transportation technology meant that the dissemination of literary texts was made ever easier, while the growing popularity of the Grand Tour opened up both countries and markets for both readers and writers. How did translations fit into the new sense of cultural context and identity enabled by this expansion? This conference will focus not only on texts translated into English, but also English texts translated into a variety of European languages.
We are interested in papers that explore these issues. Possible approaches include but are not limited to:
· Gender and the market for translations
· The growing acccessibility of foreign lands
· The increase in readerships and the development of international 'best sellers'
· The attraction of the foreign
· Translations as hack work/ as works of art
· Plagiarism and unauthorized adaptions
· The tension between a national literary identity and imports
· The critical and readerly reception of translations
· Neo-Latin translations and the vernacular
Abstracts of 250-300 words are invited and should be sent to any of the organizers:
Kate Astbury, Dept. of French, [log in to unmask]
John Gilmore, Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies
Jacqueline Labbe, Dept. of English, [log in to unmask]
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
Deadline: January 3, 2005.
Conference website: www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/events/migrations/
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