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DESCRIPTION:Please note: This exhibition is accessible during opening hours
 .\nDespite the absence of well-established international distribution chan
 nels and networks\, English literature was widely available to European re
 aders during the 18th century in both English-language editions printed in
  cities all across the Continent and in translations and bi-lingual editio
 ns.\nThis exhibition is built around the works of a number of authors incl
 uding novelists\, poets\, essayists and philosophers\, some of whom are ma
 jor figures and others now hardly known\, but all of whom had their works 
 circulating on the Continent. Three authors – Oliver Goldsmith (1730?-1774
 )\, Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) and Frances Burney (1752-1840) – are\n	repr
 esentative of the whole. In the case of Goldsmith\, his novel The Vicar of
  Wakefield is present in multiple editions and what is of particular inter
 est is how many places in Germany saw its publication and how many of the 
 French editions were printed in England. Sterne was a particular favourite
  in German-speaking countries but was also popular in France and in\n	Swede
 n\, as the Lund edition testifies. Burney’s first three novels\, in partic
 ular Evelina\, enjoyed wide popularity and appeared in English editions an
 d in translations across the Continent\; there are some sixty recorded lif
 etime editions of the novel.\nIn response to the theme of this year’s SHAR
 P Conference – “How do books\, book cultures\, or book systems spread and 
 readapt?” – this exhibition can only begin to suggest the multitude of que
 stions that these editions pose. Why were English language books being pri
 nted in Vienna? Why was The Vicar of Wakefield so popular and what do the 
 German English editions say about language learning? What was the attracti
 on that Pope held for continental readers? Why did English novels attract 
 so many non-English readers? Or were they merely examples of sophisticated
  decoration?\n
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160131
LOCATION:main floor\, lobby\, McLennan Library Building\, CA\, QC\, Montrea
 l\, H3A 0C9\, 3459 rue McTavish
SUMMARY:Exhibition: Across the Channel: English literature on the Continent
  in the 18th century
URL:/library/channels/event/exhibition-across-channel-
 english-literature-continent-18th-century-253827
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