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2 - Cultural Transmission and the Early French Novel

from Part I - Beginnings: From the Late Medieval to Madame de Lafayette

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2021

By
Linda Louie  and
Timothy Hampton
Edited by
Adam Watt
Adam Watt
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
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Summary

Whereas much scholarship on the history of the novel focuses on its relationship to large narrative forms such as epic or romance, this chapter argues that the novella tradition plays a central role in the development of the novelistic world. We show how intercalated novellas, translated or adapted from Italian or Spanish, inflect the emergence of the French novelistic canon, functioning as sites at which cultural difference is explored and managed. Material from the novella tradition helps shape and define the notions of national character and identity, as well as the role of a national language, in the emerging French canon. The chapter moves from the history of translation and editing, through a discussion of Scarron and Mme de Lafayette, to a study of the politics of genre.

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translationcanon formationnational identitynovellaBoccaccioMarguerite de NavarreScarronSolorzano
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The Cambridge History of the Novel in French , pp. 38 - 53
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Bistué, Belén, Collaborative Translation and Multi-Version Texts in Early Modern Europe: Transculturalisms, 1400–1700 (Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013)Google Scholar
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Fernández, José María Pére, and Wilson-Lee, Edward (eds.), Translation and the Book Trade in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014)Google Scholar
Glomski, Jacqueline and Moreau, Isabelle (eds.), Seventeenth-Century Fiction: Text and Transmission (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)Google Scholar
Jolles, André, Les Formes Simples (Paris: Seuil, 1972)Google Scholar
Lestringant, Frank and Zink, Michel (eds.), Histoire de la France littéraire, vol. i (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2006)Google Scholar
Moretti, Franco (ed.), The Novel, 2 vols. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007)Google Scholar
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