Professional Translators in Nineteenth-Century France

Auteur

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

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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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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'édition contemporaine archives