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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor and Francis,
2014
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 appropriate images of Italy and adapt them to their own purposes in a period which covers the 'moral turn' in women's writing in the 1740s and foreshadows the Romantic interest in Italy at the end of the century. A brief survey of translations produced by women in the period 1730-1799 pro. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (178 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781317640639 1317640632 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
