MHRA New Translations

The guiding principle of this series is to publish new translations into English of important works that have been hitherto imperfectly translated or that are entirely untranslated.

The work to be translated or re-translated should be aesthetically or intellectually important. The proposal should cover such issues as copyright and, where relevant, an account of the faults of the previous translation/s; it should be accompanied by independent statements from two experts in the field attesting to the significance of the original work (in cases where this is not obvious) and to the desirability of a new or renewed translation.

Translations should be accompanied by a fairly substantial introduction and other, briefer, apparatus: a note on the translation; a select bibliography; a chronology of the author’s life and works; and notes to the text. (The Oxford University Press World’s Classics could serve as a model.) The MHRA would especially encourage submissions for translations from ‘smaller’ languages.

Titles will be selected by members of the distinguished Editorial Board and edited by leading academics. Volumes will appear both online and as print-on-demand publications. There is no requirement for a subvention by authors.

Proposals are invited from prospective authors who should submit a completed Book Proposal Form and send it to newtranslations@mhra.org.uk

 

General Editor

Prof. Alison Finch, Univ. of Cambridge

 

Editorial Board

French: Prof. Alison Finch, Univ. of Cambridge; Prof. Malcolm Cook, Univ. of Exeter
Germanic: Prof. Ritchie Robertson, Univ. of Oxford
Italian: Dr Mark Davie, Univ. of Exeter
Portuguese: Prof. David Treece, King's College London
Slavonic: Prof. David Gillespie, Univ. of Bath
Spanish: Prof. Derek Flitter, Univ. of Exeter; Dr Jonathan Thacker, Univ. of Oxford

Vol. 1. Memoirs of Mademoiselle de Montpensier (La Grande Mademoiselle). P. J. Yarrow with the collaboration of William Brooks. ISBN 978-1-907322-01-3. Summer 2010. Mademoiselle de Montpensier (la Grande Mademoiselle), Louis XIV’s first cousin, began working on her memoirs at the age of 25 when she was exiled from Paris following her involvement on the ‘wrong’ side in the Frondes, the civil wars that threatened for a time to dislodge the young king from his throne. She was an accomplished writer of novels and literary portraits and she also wrote at least one manual of pious Christian behaviour. For a time, she hosted one of the most prominent of the literary salons in the capital; but we remember her best for her colourful life both at court and in exile. The memoirs are well written and provide an informative, outspoken, and, at times, exciting account of the life and times of one of the most active (and richest) women of the seventeenth century.

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