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Translating Italy for the Eighteenth Century : British Women, Translation and Travel Writing (1739-1797).
Translating Italy in the Eighteenth Century offers a historical analysis of the role played by translation in that complex redefinition of women's writing that was taking place in Britain in the second half of the eighteenth century. It investigates the ways in which women writers managed to ap...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. Women's Writing in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century From the Domestic Novel to Representations of the Foreign; 1.1 Methodological Premise: Feminist Narratives of the Rise of the Woman Writer; 1.2 The Age of Sensibility; 1.3 The Rise of the Idea of the Nation in Eighteenth-Century Britain; 1.4 The Female Gothic: The Italy of Ann Radcliffe; 2. Female Translators in the Eighteenth Century The Role of Women as Literary Innovators; 2.1 Historical Research in Translation Studies: a Case for Localism?
- 2.2 The Rise in the Production of Women's Fiction2.3 Women and Translation in the Mid-Eighteenth Century; 2.4 A Survey of Translations by Women 1730-1799; 3. Elizabeth Carter's Translation of Algarotti's Newtonianismo per le Dame Female Learning and Feminist Cultural Appropriation; 3.1 Elizabeth Carter: The 'Learn'd Eliza, Sister of the Muse'; 3.2 Carter and Feminism; 3.3 Women and Education in the Pages of the Gentleman's Magazine; 3.4 The Genesis of Carter's Translation of Algarotti; 3.5 The Reception of Algarotti's Text in Italy.
- 3.6 Carter's Translation of Algarotti: An Adaptation for Female Readers3.7 The Role of the 'Translatress'; 4. Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing Constructing Images of the Other; 4.1 Travel Writing as a Form of Translation; 4.2 Women and Travel Writing in the Eighteenth Century; 4.3 Eighteenth-Century Discourses of Travel; 4.4 Eighteenth Century British Travellers Constructing Italy; 5. Hester Piozzi's Appropriation of the Image of Italy Gender and the Nation; 5.1 Hester Thrale Piozzi: A Dilettante or a Remarkable Woman Writer?; 5.2 Production and Reception of Women's Travel Writing.
- 5.3 Hester Piozzi's Observations and Reflections Gender and Narration5.4 Female Identity; 5.5 National Identity; Conclusion; References; Index.