Article ID: CBB583853478

The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Huguenot Diaspora: French Protestants and the Transnational Commodification of English Nationalism (2018)

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What makes a text “transnational”? This article examines two historical intervals of the translation of The Pilgrim’s Progress (published in England in 1678). One interval hinges on Isabel Hofmeyr’s 2004 The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of The Pilgrim’s Progress, which traces the translation and indigenization of the text in colonial and postcolonial Africa. The other interval focuses on early modern French-language translations of the text in Holland and Switzerland. This article examines these Huguenot translations of Bunyan as examples of national products created through transnational processes and thereby rethinks the national/transnational dichotomy.

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Authors & Contributors
Bien, David D.
Colligan, Colette
Darnton, Robert
Kamil, Neil
Long, Pamela O.
Luzzini, Francesco
Journals
Book History
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal for the History of Knowledge
Acque Sotterranee
Publishers
Brill
Johns Hopkins University Press
University of Chicago Press
State University of New York at Buffalo
Concepts
Books and reading
Transmission of texts
Huguenots
Material culture
Science and literature
Technology
People
Bunyan, John
Behn, Aphra
Defoe, Daniel
Dickens, Charles
Hume, David
Palissy, Bernard
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
19th century
16th century
Early modern
Medieval
Places
United States
Central Europe
France
Great Britain
Americas
England
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