Redrawing Europe's Literary Map : Transnational Circulations of Women’s Writing 1850–1920 / edited by Henriette Partzsch and Viola Parente-Čapková.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Partzsch, Henriette, editor.

Parente-Čapková, Viola, editor.

Series:

Women Writers in History ; 6.

Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Women Writers in History ; 6

Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Early Modern History.

Literature and Cultural Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Transnational Circulations of Women’s Writing 1850–1920

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Who is your favourite woman writer from the 18s? Today, many readers are likely to name Jane Austen, but in the 188s, a common answer across Europe might well have been E. Marlitt. Redrawing Europe’s Literary Map sets out to uncover which female authors reached historical readers ca 185-192, based on the analysis of libraries and book collections, serializations in periodicals, literary reviewing, advertisements and translations. This data-rich approach shapes the comparative methodology and overall relational framework adopted in the volume. Its unusual perspective, centring the literary scenes of Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia and Spain, provides unique insights into the transnational connectedness of the European literary system around 19.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title Page

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Tables

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 Researching Sites of Reading

2 Researching with a Sense of Place

3 About This Book and Its Link to Cyberspace

Works Cited

Chapter 1 Women Writers on the Shelves : A Comparative Study of the Cygnaeus Collection of Fiction (Finland), the Library of Emilia Pardo Bazán (Spain), and the Kristiania Women's Reading Society (Norway)

1 Presentating the Three Collections

2 Women Writers on the Shelves

3 Languages, Countries, and Borders

4 Tracing Circulation

5 Agency and Connectedness

6 Conclusion

Chapter 2 Women Writers in the Cellar: Serialized Fiction in Nineteenth-Century Norwegian and Spanish Newspapers

1 Introduction

2 A General Overview of the Presence of Women Writers

3 Christiania-Posten's Varying Profiles

4 Morgenbladet's Long-Standing Literary Profile

5 Aftenposten's Literary Profile and 'The Great Unread'

6 La Correspondencia de España's Literary Profile and the Emergence of Literary Agents

7 La Iberia's Literary Profile and Attitudes towards Translation and Gender

8 Newspapers, Politics, and Cellar Novels

9 The Difficulties of Gauging the Potential Influence of Women Editors and Translators on the Cellar Novel

10 Conclusion

Chapter 3 Women Writers under Scrutiny: Reviewing in the Spanish and Slovene Periodical Press

2 Setting the Scene i: A Quantitative Approximation to the Reviewing of Women's Writing in Spain

3 Setting the Scene II: A Qualitative Analysis of the Reviewing of Women's Writing in Slovenia

4 Women Editors and Reviewers: Spain

5 Women Editors and Reviewers: Slovenia

6 Case Study: Laura Marholm (1854-1928) Reviewed

7 Conclusion.

Works Cited

Chapter 4 The Transformative Effect of Translation on Themes of Women's Reproductive Health: The Case of Amelia Opie's The Father and Daughter

1 Reception of the Theme of Women's Reproductive Health

2 Amelia Opie: A Case Study

3 Opie's The Father and Daughter

4 Translations of The Father and Daughter

5 Le Père et la Fille and Le Père et la Fille: Conte Moral

6 Vader en Dochter and Vater und Tochter

7 Conclusion

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Chapter 5 How Girls' Literature Found Its Way to Finland

1 Objects, Aims, and Methodology

2 The Reception of Foreign Literature in Finland

3 The Press and Booksellers in the Nineteenth-Century Finland

4 French- and German-Language Literature for Girls

5 Scandinavian Girls' Literature

6 Anglophone Literature for Girls

7 Louisa May Alcott: Reception and Translation

7.1 The Reception of Alcott's Work

8 Translations and Translators of Alcott's an Old-Fashioned Girl

9 Omissions, Domestications, Misunderstandings: Translators' Choices

10 Other Literary Mediators

11 Conclusion

Chapter 6 One Woman Writer Everywhere : The Ubiquitous E. Marlitt

1 Marlitt's Writing Career according to Die Gartenlaube

2 Serialized Translations of Marlitt's Work

3 Translations of Marlitt's Work for the Book Market in the Netherlands

4 Translations for the Book Market of the Nordic Countries

5 Translations for the Book Market in Spain

6 The Presence of Marlitt's Works in Libraries

7 Reading Marlitt

8 Reviewing and Readership in the Netherlands

9 Slovenian Writers as Readers of Marlitt's Texts

10 Translating Marlitt for Predominantly Catholic Readers

11 Emmeline Raymond's Controversial French Translations

12 The Victory of a Proactive Translation in Spain.

13 Conclusion

Databases

Chapter 7 Visualizations of the WomenWriters Database (NEWW) : The Semiotics of Information Visualization

1 Why Visualize the WomenWriters Database (NEWW)?

2 The Visual Arguments

3 The Network-Graph Visualization in the WomenWriters Database (NEWW)

4 Findings of the Visualization Projects

5 Data Visualizations as Knowledge Production

6 Interpretation of Data-Sculptures

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004760974

OCLC:

1603128350

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004760974 DOI