This essay offers a parallel study of English translations of the Classics published in seventeenth-century Britain and their subversive « imitations » also (paradoxically) flourishing at the time. While scholars have highlighted the « hypertextual » (Genette) dynamics of literary travesties and linked them to the decline of social and literary models inherited from the Humanist tradition, this study focuses more specifically on the intertextual and discursive, but also material and editorial connections that intimately associate « à la mode » rewritings of the Classics with neoclassical translation codes and practices — in particular the French « belles infidèles » model that becomes dominant in Britain at that very same time.

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• Belle, M., (2025), "L’Antiquité « à la mode » : traduction et travestissement littéraires, de la France à l’Angleterre (1650–1700)", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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Original publication: Belle, Marie-Alice. "L’Antiquité « à la mode » : traduction et travestissement littéraires, de la France à l’Angleterre (1650–1700)." Renaissance and Reformation 43 (2): 2020. 263-292. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v43i2.34799. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.