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Literary Translation in Periodicals: Methodological challenges for a transnational approach
Edited by Laura Fólica, Diana Roig-Sanz and Stefania Caristia
[Benjamins Translation Library 155] 2020
► pp. 347–363

Chapter 15
Eternal problems

The study of Stendhal in translation in British late-romantic periodicals

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This chapter contends that literatures cannot solely be considered within national frameworks. This is illustrated by a case study of the transnational dimensions of Stendhal’s work in British Late-Romantic literary magazines. The Late-Romantic period is often seen as an insular, self-reflexive period within British Romanticism. Evidence shows, however, that it was a truly international period with literature continually crossing the channel in different forms. Three of the major literary magazines of the period played an important role in this transnational literary exchange: The New Monthly Magazine, the London Magazine, and Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. This article focuses on the polemical, competitive, and ideological struggles between the three magazines, exemplified in the way they treated the French author Stendhal, through translation and reception.
Keywords: transnationalism, Stendhal, British Romanticism, Late Romanticism, translation, periodicals, literary magazines, reception, periodicals
Article outline
  • Stendhal straddled
  • An transnational affair
  • Classics versus Romantics
  • Methods straddled
  • Notes
  • References
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Published online: 10 December 2020
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