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Little to date has been said about paratexts that accompany early modern translations, whose very essence is collaborative, yet they contribute significantly to making a translated work appropriate to its new socio-cultural context, while providing a space for all the agents involved in the translation and publication process to address a variety of questions. Among these, in the case of many female-authored translated works, are the intertwined considerations of translation, collaboration, authorship, and gender. This chapter explores how the collaborative dynamics involved in producing Susan du Verger’s and Judith Man’s English translations of four male-authored French texts inform the accompanying paratextual metadiscourse, rendering it a rich terrain in which to examine gender and authorship concerns.
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Hosington, B.M. (2017). Collaboration, Authorship, and Gender in the Paratexts Accompanying Translations by Susan Du Verger and Judith Man. In: Pender, P. (eds) Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration . Early Modern Literature in History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58777-6_5
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