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Merkle, Denise, Carol O'Sullivan, Luc van Doorslaer and Michaela Wolf, eds. 2010. The power of the pen: translation and censorship in nineteenth-century Europe (Repräsentation-Transformation: Translating across Cultures and Societies 4). Münster: LIT Verlag. 298 pp.

Publication type

Edited volume

Publication language

English

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Main ISBN

9783643501769

Abstract

This interdisciplinary collection investigates the relations between translation and different forms and systems of censorship that were operating in nineteenth-century Europe. The volume presents and discusses broadly the research findings of Translation Studies scholars from a total of nine countries. Contributors have studied not only the apparati of power that enforce censorship but also the symbolic dimension that as well as being inherent to systems is also an explicit activity on the part of decision makers. The papers combine to create a sharp historical focus on the role of translators as agents of conformity and/or subversion in the face of censorship in nineteenth-century Europe.

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Articles in this volume

Merkle, Denise, Carol O'Sullivan, Luc van Doorslaer and Michaela Wolf. Exploring a neglected century: translation and censorship in nineteenth-century Europe. 7–26

Bachleitner, Norbert and Michaela Wolf. ÜbersetzerInnen als "gatekeepers"? (Selbst-)Zensur als Voraussetzung für die Aufnahme in das literarische Feld der späten Habsburgermonarchie [Translators as "gatekeepers"? Self-censorship as a condition for inclusion in the literary field of late Habsburg Monarchy]. 29–53

Doorslaer, Luc van. Source-nation- or source-language-based censorship? The (non-)translation of serial stories in Flemish newspapers (1844-1899). 55–76

Uribarri, Ibon. German philosophy in nineteenth-century Spain: reception, translation, and censorship in the case of Immanuel Kant. 77–95

Merkle, Denise. M. French Sheldon, translator of Gustave Flaubert’s Salammbô: transauthorship and the mechanics of censorship in late-Victorian Britain. 97–118

O'Sullivan, Carol. Margin and the third-person effect in Bohn’s extra volumes. 119–139

Gibbels, Elisabeth. Zensur und translation in Deutschland zwischen 1878-1890: das "Sozialistengesetz" und die Exilzeitung der Sozialistischen Arbeiterpartei (SAP) [Censorship and translation in Germany between 1878-1890: the "socialist law" and the exile newspaper of the Socialist Workers' Party (SAP)]. 143–167

Bueno Maia, Rita. Translation, censorship and romanticism in Portugal, 1800-1850. 169–189

Perojo Arronte, María Augenia. Spanish Romanticism and the struggle for legitimation: translation, censorship and the development of the movement. 191–212

Baer, Brian James. Literary translation in the age of the decembrists: the birth of productive censorship in Russia. 213–242

Léger, Benoît. Le purgatoire de Dante sous le second empire: entre censure et autocensure [Dante's purgatory in the Second Empire: between censorship and self-censorship]. 243–263

Paloposki, Outi. Moral issues and individual decisions: translators as censors in nineteenth-century Finland. 265–283

Reviewed by

Albers, Frank. 2011. Review of The power of the pen: translation and censorship in nineteenth-century Europe. In O'Hagan, Minako, ed. Translation as a social activity. Community translation 2.0. Special issue of Linguistica Antverpiensia: New Series 10: 229–231.

Camus Camus, Carmen. 2014. Review of The power of the pen: translation and censorship in nineteenth-century Europe. In Boyden, Michael, ed. Twenty years EST: same place, different times. Special issue of Target 26 (2): 308–314.

D'hulst, Lieven. 2012. Review of The power of the pen: translation and censorship in nineteenth-century Europe. In Díaz Cintas, Jorge, ed. La manipulation de la traduction audiovisuelle / The manipulation of audiovisual translation. Special issue of Meta 57 (2) : 257–539: 531–532.