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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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Details
- Description
- viii, 166 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Literature > Translations into English > History and criticism
- Feminist criticism
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History
- Translating and interpreting > Sex differences > Great Britain > History
- Women translators > Great Britain > History > 16th century
- Literature > Adaptations > History and criticism
- Women translators > Great Britain > History > 17th century
- Translating and interpreting > Great Britain > History
- Authorship > History > Great Britain
- English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and 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