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Women as translators in early modern England

Title
Women as translators in early modern England / Deborah Uman.
Author
Uman, Deborah, 1969-
Publication
Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield, c2012.

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Description
viii, 166 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Literature > Translations into English > History and criticism
  • Women translators > Great Britain > History > 16th century
  • Women translators > Great Britain > History > 17th century
  • Translating and interpreting > Sex differences > History. > Great Britain
  • Translating and interpreting > Great Britain > History
  • Literature > Adaptations > History and criticism
  • Authorship > History > Great Britain
  • English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
  • Women and literature > Great Britain > History
  • Feminist criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"This defective edition": gender and translation. Translation, metaphor and allusion; Women translators; Translation and authorship -- Defending translation. Strategic humility: prefacing translation; Defending women's work: Margaret Tyler; Defending women's knowledge: Aphra Behn -- 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 -- 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 -- Embodying the translatress. Writing on trees: transforming classical and Petrarchan conventions; Writing on the body: translating narratives of empire -- Conclusion.
Call Number
JFE 12-4842
ISBN
  • 9781611493856 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1611493854 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781611493863 (electronic)
  • 1611493862 (electronic)
LCCN
2012000474
OCLC
773019402
Author
Uman, Deborah, 1969-
Title
Women as translators in early modern England / Deborah Uman.
Imprint
Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield, c2012.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 12-4842
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