Women as translators in early modern England
By: Deborah Uman
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newark; Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781611493856; 9781611493863
Subjects: Literature; Adaptations; Translating and interpreting; English literature; History and criticism; Feminist criticism; Translations into English; Women and literature; Great Britain; Authorship; Sex differences; Women translators; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "This defective edition": gender and translation. Translation, metaphor and allusion; Women translators; Translation and authorship; title: Defending translation. Strategic humility: prefacing translation; Defending women's work: Margaret Tyler; Defending women's knowledge: Aphra Behn; title: Echoing Eve: sacred imitations and the tradition of women's poetry. Anne Vaughan Lock's ambivalent I; Mary Sidney Herbert's non-apology for poetry; Aemilia Lanyer's imitations of Eden; title: Staging translation. Witnessing education: Jane Lumley's The tragedie of Iphigeneia; Living monuments: Mary Sidney Herbert's Antonius; Friendship and empire: Katherine Philips' Pompey and Horace; title: Embodying the translatress. Writing on trees: transforming classical and Petrarchan conventions; Writing on the body: translating narratives of empire; title: Conclusion.