Translating Italy for the eighteenth century : women, translation and travel writing, 1739-1797 /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Agorni, Mirella (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
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.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Women's writing in the second half of the eighteenth century : from the domestic novel to representations of the foreign
  • 2. Female translators in the eighteenth century : the role of women as literary innovators
  • 3. Elizabeth Carter's translation of Algarotti's Newtonianismo per le dame : female learning and feminist cultural appropriation
  • 4. Eighteenth-century travel writing : constructing images of the other
  • 5. Hester Piozzi's appropriation of the image of Italy : gender and the nation.

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