Translating Jane Austen

Bibliography and Sources

See here for references to all sources used throughout the project, as well as suggestions for further exploration. I was inspired by many other brilliant digital humanities projects, which are linked below – lots to do with Austen, but others cover a broad range of topics.

I compiled the database using a range of sources and drawing on extensive previous scholarship about Austen in translation. Below are the articles, books, and websites that have informed the project’s construction and direction, as well as links to a large number of national library catalogues, from which I sourced much of the data.

But firstly, massive thanks must go to all of the Austen specialists, translations studies experts, and everyone who kindly contributed their suggestions and information for the project. Thank you to Silja Adalsteinsdottir, Jeanne Barangé, Maria Clara Pivato Biajoli, Chiara Codecà, Isobel Grundy, Saihong Li, Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou, Tatjana Šepić, Hatsuyo Shimazaki, Marie Nedregotten Sørbø, Cinthia García Soria, Julia Vallasek, and Sandra Guardini Teixeira Vasconcelos.

Books:

  • Cossy, Valérie, Jane Austen in Switzerland: A Study of the Early French Translations (Slatkine, 2006)
  • Danielsen, Hanne, Amateurs in Translation: A Presentation of the Fredstrup Sisters (Copenhagen, 2022)
  • Gilson, David, A Bibliography of Jane Austen (Clarendon Press, 1982)
  • Looser, Devoney, The Making of Jane Austen (John Hopkins University Press, 2017)
  • Park, You-Me, and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, eds., The Postcolonial Jane Austen (London: Routledge, 2004)
  • Sørbø, Marie Nedregotten, Jane Austen Speaks Norwegian (Brill, 2018), http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/38109
  • The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe, ed. by Anthony Mandal and Brian Southam (Continuum, 2007)
  • Trunel, Lucile, Les éditions françaises de Jane Austen 1815–2007: L’apport de l’histoire éditoriale à la compréhension de la réception de l’auteur en France (Paris, 2010)
  • Vasconcelos, Sandra Guardini Teixeira, ‘Circuits and Crossings: The Case of A Família Elliot’, in The Transatlantic Circulation of Novels Between Europe and Brazil, 1789–1914, ed. by Márcia Abreu (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 125–44

Places Visited:

Chapters and Articles:

  • Biajoli, Maria Clara Pivato, ‘Horrid Tropics? British Fiction and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey in Brazil’, Persuasions On-Line 40.1 (2019), <https://jasna.org/publications-2/persuasions-online/volume-40-no-1/pivato-biajoli/>
  • Canter, Rachel, ‘Translating Jane Austen: World Literary Space and Isabelle de Montolieu’s La Famille Elliot (1821)’, in The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen, ed. by Cheryl A. Wilson and Maria H. Frawley, pp. 368-78 (Routledge, 2022)
  • Dow, Gillian, ‘Uses of Translation: The Global Jane Austen’, in Uses of Austen: Jane’s Afterlives, ed. by Gillian Dow and Clare Hanson (London, 2012)
  • Dow, Gillian, ‘Translations’, in The Cambridge Companion to ‘Pride and Prejudice’, ed. by Janet Todd (Cambridge, 2013), pp. 122–36
  • Dow, Gillian, ‘Translations,’ in The Cambridge Companion to Emma, ed. by Peter Sabor (Cambridge, 2015), pp. 166–85
  • Dow, Gillian and Janine Barchas, ‘Jane Austen and the Imperfect Art of Translation,’ in The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts, ed. by Joe Bray and Hannah Moss (Edinburgh, 2023), pp. 119–34
  • King, Noel, ‘Jane Austen in France’, Nineteenth-Century Fiction 8.1 (1953), pp. 1-28
  • Li, Qi, ‘Translating Jane Austen’s narratives across time and space in mainland China’ (University of Stirling, 2023)
  • Sabor, Peter, ‘Less Sense, More Sensibility: Isabelle de Montolieu’s Raison et sensibilité (1815)’, Persuasions, 44.1 (2022), pp. 123–136
  • Soria, Cinthia García, ‘Judgment and Feelings: Sense and Sensibility’s Journey to the Spanish-Speaking World’, Persuasions On-Line, 43.1 (2022) <https://jasna.org/publications-2/persuasions-online/volume-43-no-1/garcia-soria/>
  • — — –, ‘Pride and Prejudice’s Popularity in the Spanish-Speaking World (1924–1994): Getting Stronger than Pride’, Persuasions On-Line, 44.1 (2023) <https://jasna.org/publications-2/persuasions-online/volume-44-no-1/garcia-soria/>
  • — — –, ‘Pride and Prejudice’s Popularity in the Spanish-Speaking World (Part 2): Austenmania and the First Quarter of the Twenty-First Century’, Persuasions On-Line, 45.1 (2024) <https://jasna.org/publications-2/persuasions-online/volume-45-no-1/garcia-soria/>
  • Sukhera, Laaleen, ‘Global Jane Austen: Obstinate, Headstrong Pakistanis’, in The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen, ed. by Cheryl A. Wilson and Maria H. Frawley (Routledge, 2022), pp. 468-80

Related Digital Humanities Projects:

Catalogues and Databases:

Freely available copies of Austen’s novels (for download, online viewing, or for kindle), from Project Gutenberg: