La traducción de Irlanda: <em>Popular Tales</em> (1804) de Maria Edgeworth en francés

Carmen María Fernández

doi:10.30827/sendebar.v25i0.1557

Authors

Carmen María Fernández EOI Santiago de Compostela/Universidade de A Coruña

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30827/sendebar.v25i0.1557

Keywords:

translation, Maria Edgeworth, Ireland, cultural studies, women’s literature, British literature

Abstract

Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) was the most popular Anglo-Irish woman writer in the nineteenth century. Well-known for her wit and satiric vein; Edgeworth produced a good deal of essays, educational works and feminocentric novels, most of which were translated on the Continent. In this article we will analyze the representation of Ireland in two French versions of a story contained in Popular Tales (1804), bearing in mind that France was regarded as a superior culture and that Ireland meant an exotic territory for European readers. After a contextualization of each translation, we will focus on the comparison with the text as it appeared in Great Britain. Both the Pictets’ translation and Bertin’s introduce important changes since they feature a refined world and suppress elements that might shock readers. Consequently, the reception of Edgeworth’s work in French-speaking countries differs a lot from the one obtained in Great Britain.

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Author Biography

Carmen María Fernández, EOI Santiago de Compostela/Universidade de A Coruña

Doctora en Fililogía Inglesa por la Universidad de A Coruña. Profesora de Educación Secundaria especialidad Inglés. Profesora de EOI.

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