TY - BOOK AU - Beebee,Thomas O. TI - Clarissa on the Continent: Translation and Seduction SN - 9780271073316 AV - PR3664.C43 B44 1990 U1 - 823/.6 20 PY - 2021///] CY - University Park, PA : PB - Penn State University Press, KW - English fiction KW - Appreciation KW - Europe KW - Epistolary fiction, English KW - History and criticism KW - Rape victims in literature KW - Seduction in literature KW - Translating and interpreting KW - History KW - 18th century KW - 19th century KW - Women and literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1 Introduction: Richardson, Prevost, Michaelis --; 2 Translation, Transposition, Intertextuality --; 3 Texts in Opposition --; 4 Translating Dialogism --; 5 Clarissa's Blooming; or, Translation and Textual Life --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - ";Clarissa"; on the Continent defines and explores two strategies of literary translation-creative vs. preservative and strong vs. weak-as they transform one of the most influential English novels. Thomas Beebee compares the two opposing strategies as they influence the French translation of Clarissa by the novelist Antione François de Prévost and the German translation by the Göttingen Orientalist Johann David Michaelis, and in doing so he demonstrates that each translator found authority for his procedure within the text itself. Each translation is also examined in light of Richardson's other writings and placed in its literary and cultural context. This study uses translations in order to interpret Clarissa, to show how the basis for the novel's reception on the Continent was laid, and to explore the differences and interactions among three literary and cultural systems of the eighteenth century. The close examination of these two important translations enable the formulation of not only a theory of creative vs. preservative translation but also the interconnections between literary theory and translation theory. Beebee also looks at later translations of Clarissa as products of literary and historical change and at Prévostian strategies of the novel UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271073316?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271073316 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780271073316.jpg ER -