The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France, 1500-1660 [electronic resource] /
Demetriou, Tania.editor.
Tomlinson, Rowan.editor.
This book explores modalities and cultural interventions of translation in the early modern period, focusing on the shared parameters of these two translation cultures. Translation emerges as a powerful tool for thinking about community and citizenship, literary tradition and the classical past, certitude and doubt, language and the imagination.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction: 'Abroad in Mens Hands': The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France; 1 From Cultural Translation to Cultures of Translation? Early Modern Readers, Sellers and Patrons; 2 Francis I's Royal Readers: Translation and the Triangulation of Power in Early Renaissance France (1533-4); 3 Pure and Common Greek in Early Tudor England; 4 From Commentary to Translation: Figurative Representations of the Text in the French Renaissance; 5 Periphron Penelope and her Early Modern Translations
6 Richard Stanihurst's Aeneis and the English of Ireland7 Women's Weapons: Country House Diplomacy in the Countess of Pembroke's French Translations; 8 'Peradventure' in Florio's Montaigne; 9 Translating Scepticism and Transferring Knowledge in Montaigne's House; 10 Urquhart's Inflationary Universe; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book explores modalities and cultural interventions of translation in the early modern period, focusing on the shared parameters of these two translation cultures. Translation emerges as a powerful tool for thinking about community and citizenship, literary tradition and the classical past, certitude and doubt, language and the imagination.
Literature, Modern.
History, Modern.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Fiction.
British literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Modern History.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.