Susan Pickford

Professional Translators in Nineteenth-Century France

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book shines a light on the practices and professional identities of translators in nineteenth-century France, speaking to the translatorial turn in translation studies which spotlights translators as active agents in the international circulation of texts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781032001791
• ISBN-10: 1032001798
• Artikelnr.: 71236541

Autorenporträt

Susan Pickford is Head of the English unit at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 The Emergnce of a Mass Market for Translation
2 Tracing an Emergent Discourse of Translatorial Labour
3 Tracing Translators in Publishers' Archives
4 Developing a Legal Framework for the Nineteenth-Century French Literary
Translation Market
5 The Economic Lives of Nineteenth-Century Women Translators
6 The Life and Career of Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconprêt, Inventor of
the "Lingual Steam Engine"
Coda
Appendix: Translators and Transactions in the Institut mémoires de l'é
dition contemporaine archives