Part of the Early Modern Research Cluster
Abs tract:
Marie de Gournay\, the prolific writer\, translator\, scholar and fille d’alliance of Montaigne\, uses fighting words in her letter to th e French king that accompanies her translation of Virgil’s Aeneid to assert the power of the distaff against that of the episcopal crozier:
Quel le temerité\, SIRE\, une quenouille attaque une crosse\, et la crosse d’un Bertault ? Mais il est raison que soubs un si brave Monarque\, les Dames os ent entreprendre des gestes d’Amazones.
In my paper I examine the man ifestations of this competition\, which involves Gournay incorporating pass ages from Bishop Bertaut’s translation into her own to facilitate compariso n. What can we conclude about her self-positioning as an outsider fighting against the masculine establishment?
About the Presenter
Susanna Braund (UBC\, CNRS)
Susanna Braund holds the Canad a Research Chair in Latin Poetry and its Reception at UBC. She has previous ly taught at Stanford University\, Yale University\, and the Universities o f London\, Bristol and Exeter.
She has published extensively on Roman satire and Latin epic poetry among other aspects of Latin literature and h as translated Lucan (Oxford World's Classics) and Persius and Juvenal (Loeb Classical Library). She was a Visiting Scholar at the Collège de France in 2014 and held a Killam Research Fellowship in 2016-18 for her major projec t A Cultural History of Translations of Virgil: From the Twelfth Century to the Present\, which will be published by Cambridge University Press.
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