“The Reception of Histoire galante in England in a Competitive Market: The Case of Aphra Behn’s Agnes de Castro (1688)”
Thanks to critics such as Ros Ballaster, Paul Salzman, Mary Helen McMurran and Leah Orr, we are now aware that the history of early English prose fiction in the seventeenth century should be seen in a transnational context, and that it is intricately linked with the translation of French, Spanish and Italian contemporary fiction. Translation provid...
