A Newly Discovered Translation of Louisa May Alcott's “The Brothers” in a German American Newspaper

Steinroetter, Vanessa

doi:10.1162/tneq.2008.81.4.703

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December 01 2008

A Newly Discovered Translation of Louisa May Alcott's “The Brothers” in a German American Newspaper

Vanessa Steinroetter

Vanessa Steinroetter is a doctoral student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln working in the field of nineteenth-century American literature and culture, with a special interest in interdisciplinary and transatlantic subjects. She is currently researching American literature written during the Civil War for her dissertation project on readership and depictions of reading in Civil War literature.

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Vanessa Steinroetter

Vanessa Steinroetter is a doctoral student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln working in the field of nineteenth-century American literature and culture, with a special interest in interdisciplinary and transatlantic subjects. She is currently researching American literature written during the Civil War for her dissertation project on readership and depictions of reading in Civil War literature.

Online ISSN: 1937-2213

Print ISSN: 0028-4866

2008

The New England Quarterly (2008) 81 (4): 703–713.

https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq.2008.81.4.703

Abstract

Shortly being published in an 1863 Atlantic Monthly in November 1863, Louisa May Alcott's short story “The Brothers” appeared in a Washington, D.C., German American weekly. The essay examines how, through changes in register and tone, excisions, and other modifications, the translation adapted the story for its audience while preserving the story's translinguistic appeal and abolitionist message.

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