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Translating Italy for the eighteenth century : women, translation, and travel writing, 1739-1797
- Title
- Translating Italy for the eighteenth century : women, translation, and travel writing, 1739-1797 / Mirella Agorni.
- Author
- Agorni, Mirella.
- Publication
- Manchester, UK ; Northampton, MA : St. Jerome Pub., 2002.
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Details
- Description
- 169 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Italian language > Translating into English > History
- Italy > In literature
- English prose literature > Italian influences
- Women translators > Great Britain
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Translating and interpreting > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- English prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Travelers' writings, English > History and criticism
- British > Italy > History > 18th century > Historiography
- English prose literature > 18th century > History and criticism
- Women travelers > Italy > History > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-163) and index.
- Contents
- Methodological premise: feminist narratives of the rise of the woman writer -- The age of sensibility -- The rise of the idea of the nation in eighteenth century Britain -- The female gothic: the Italy of Ann Radcliffe -- Female translators in the eighteenth century: the role of women as literary innovators -- Historical research in translation studies: a case for localism? -- The rise in the production of women's fiction -- Women and translation in the mid-eighteenth century -- A survey of translations by women, 1730-1799 -- Elizabeth Carter's translation of Algarotti's Newtonianesimo per le dame: female learning and feminist cultural appropriation -- Elizabeth Carter: the 'learn'd Eliza, sister of the muse' -- Carter and feminism -- Women and education in the pages of the gentleman's magazine -- The genesis of Carter's translation of Algarotti -- The reception of Algarotti's text in his country -- Carter's translation of Algarotti: an adaptation for female readers -- The role of the 'translatress' -- Eighteenth century travel writing: constructing images of the other -- Travel writing as a form of translation -- Women and travel writing in the eighteenth century -- Eighteenth-century discourses of travel -- Eighteenth century british travellers constructing Italy -- Hester Piozzi's appropriation of the image of Italy: gender and the nation -- Hester Thrale Piozzi: a dilettante or a remarkable woman writer? -- Production and reception of women's travel writing -- Hester Piozzi's observations and reflections: gender and narration -- Female identity -- National identity.
- Call Number
- JFE 03-13509
- ISBN
- 1900650533 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002151630
- OCLC
- 50215460
- Author
- Agorni, Mirella.
- Title
- Translating Italy for the eighteenth century : women, translation, and travel writing, 1739-1797 / Mirella Agorni.
- Imprint
- Manchester, UK ; Northampton, MA : St. Jerome Pub., 2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-163) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 03-13509