Valérie Cossy

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Specializing in

Translation and cultural transfer in the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century,
Jane Austen in translation or cross-cultural Austen,
Isabelle de Charrière,
Germaine de Staël,
Frances Burney,
Virginia Woolf as literary historian,
Swiss contemporaries of Virginia Woolf

Personal website

Some recent publications relevant for NEWW

Jane Austen in Switzerland. A study of the Early French Translations. Genève, 2006.
"Jane Austen en français: ou comment genre romanesque et rapports sociaux de sexe résistent ensemble à la traduction", in Jérôme Meizoz (ed.), La circulation internationale des littératures. Etudes de Lettres. 2006, 1-2, p. 169-193.
(with Diego Saglia), "Translations", in Janet Todd (ed.), Jane Austen in Context. Cambridge, 2005, p. 169-181.
"L’utilité entre progrès et conservatisme dans la Bibliothèque britannique. Les frères Pictet et l’oeuvre de Maria Edgeworth", in Republikanische Tugend, Contributions à une nouvelle approche des Lumières helvétiques. Genève, 2000, p. 241-262.

Realized or planned activities/publications in NEWW-context

"Isabelle de Charrière and the Universality of the French Language: From Cosmopolitanism to Imperialism", in S. van Dijk et al., eds., Belle de Zuylen/Isabelle de Charrière: Education, Creation, Reception. Amsterdam-New York, 2006, p. 287-298.
co-organiser of the Geneva 2007 NEWW conference.
co-editor of the Geneva conference proceedings.
Fidecaro Agnese, Henriette Partzsch, Suzan van Dijk et Valérie Cossy (dir.), Femmes écrivains à la croisée des langues / Women Writers at the Crossroads of Languages, 1700-2000, Actes du colloque organisé à l’Université de Genève les 9 et 10 mai 2007, Genève : MétisPresses, à paraître en 2009.
participant in full proposal for COST Action Women Writers in History (submitted January 2009).

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More information

SvD, February 2009