Clarissa on the Continent: Translation and Seduction

by Thomas O. Beebee

Book Overview

"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 Fran ois de Pr vost and the German translation by the G ttingen Orientalist Johann David Michaelis, and in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271026162
• ISBN13: 9780271026169
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"