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Decadence eludes definition, but critics tend to concur on the movement’s transgressive and uncommercial status in the British literary field. This essay questions those associations by exploring a current of archetypal decadent French novels translated by and marketed to a mainstream Anglophone audience: Joris-Karl Huysmans’s En Route (1895, trans. 1896) and La cathédrale (1898, trans. 1898) and Pierre Louÿs’s Aphrodite: Mœurs antiques (1896, trans. 1900 and 1906) and La femme et le pantin (1898, trans. 1908). By reading letters, memoirs, and prefaces alongside periodical reviews and a publisher’s archive, the essay sheds light on the novels’ invisible translators and reveals the fiscal and legal viability of “domesticated decadence.” Doing so models how translation studies and book-historical methods can revise deep-set tenets of literary history. These “poisonous” epitomes of the fin de siècle in fact circulated freely across the Channel, reaching more than the happy few.
颓废难以定义，但评论家们倾向于同意该运动在英国文学界的越界和非商业地位。本文通过探索由英语为母语的主流读者翻译并销售的典型颓废法国小说的潮流，对这些联系提出了质疑:约里斯-卡尔·休斯曼的《在路上》(1895年，英译)。1896)和La cathendrale(1898，译)。1898)和皮埃尔Louÿs的《阿芙罗狄蒂:Mœurs古董》(1896，译)。1900年和1906年)和La femme et le pantin(1898，译)。1908)。通过阅读信件、回忆录和序言，以及定期评论和出版商的档案，这篇文章揭示了这些小说的隐形译者，揭示了“驯化的颓废”在财政和法律上的可行性。这样做可以模拟翻译研究和书籍历史方法如何修正文学史的根深蒂固的原则。事实上，这些“有毒”的经济危机缩影在英吉利海峡两岸自由流通，惠及的不仅仅是少数幸福的人。
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MLQ focuses on change, both in literary practice and within the profession of literature itself. The journal is open to essays on literary change from the Middle Ages to the present and welcomes theoretical reflections on the relationship of literary change or historicism to feminism, ethnic studies, cultural materialism, discourse analysis, and all other forms of representation and cultural critique. Seeing texts as the depictions, agents, and vehicles of change, MLQ targets literature as a commanding and vital force.
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