Translating Italy for the eighteenth century
Subtitle: women, translation, and travel writing, 1739-1797
By: Mirella Agorni.
Publisher: St. Jerome Pub.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: English prose literature -- Italian influences.; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; British -- Italy -- History -- 18th century -- Historiography.; English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Translating and interpreting -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; Travelers' writings, English -- Italy -- History and criticism.; Italian language -- Translating into English -- History.; Women travelers -- Italy -- History -- 19th century.; Women translators -- Great Britain.; Italy -- In literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-163) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Women's writing the second half of the eighteenth century : from the domestic novel to the representations of the foreign; title: Female translators in the eighteenth century : the role of women as literary innovators; title: Elizabeth Carter's translation of Algarotti's Newtoniansimo per le dame : female learning and feminist cultural appropriation; title: Eighteenth-century travel writing : constructing images of the other; title: Hester Piozzi's Appropriation of the image of Italy : gender and the nation.