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La chapelle d'Ayton, ou Emma Courtney

Year VII (1799) Forms: Fiction, Gothic fiction Translation Status: Adapted, Extended French Paris URL

Authors of source text

Mary Hays

Contributions

Elizabeth Charlotte Pauline de Meulan-Guizot
translator
Claude-François Maradan
publisher

Related resources

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Memoirs of Emma Courtney has translation
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La chapelle d'Ayton, ou Emma Courtney paratext

Notes

The source text is a gothic novel with a feminist subtext, including letters exchanged between the author and William Godwin. The translation was 800 pages longer than the source text and contained 5 instead of 2 volumes. Much of this material was derived from other contemporary English novels. According to Bergmann, the translator transformed the text in a de-radicalising way by leaving out the most radical and feminist elements. Helena Bergmann, 'Translation as De-Radicalization: On the Transforming of Mary Hays’s Memoirs of Emma Courtney into French', February 2018, Romantik 6(1):83-98. The translation has nevertheless been included in the database on the grounds of the radicalism of the source text and the female agency of both the author and the translator.