REEDITIONS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVELS AND THE FICTIONALIZATION OF NEW AUDIENCES

From: Chasqui | Date: November 1, 2007| Author: Lindstrom, Naomi | Copyright information

What may be learned about editorial and critical expectations concerning current-day readers, based on an examination of recent editions of nineteenth-century Spanish American and Brazilian novels? This survey of a selection of such editions focuses upon the way in which editors, translators, authors of forewords and jacket designers seek to communicate to audiences of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century the significance and worth of novels that, written under the sway of the re...

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