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Translating Italy for the eighteenth century : women, translation, and travel writing, 1739-1797 / Mirella Agorni.
- 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., c2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR129.I8 A36 2002 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 169 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- English prose literature > Italian influences
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- British > Italy > Historiography. > 18th century
- English prose literature > 18th century > History and criticism
- English prose literature > History and criticism
- Translating and interpreting > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Travelers' writings, English > Italy > History and criticism
- Italian language > History
- Women travelers > Italy > History > 19th century
- Women translators > Great Britain
- Italy > In literature
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-163) and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Women's writing the second half of the eighteenth century : from the domestic novel to the representations of the foreign -- Female translators in the eighteenth century : the role of women as literary innovators -- Elizabeth Carter's translation of Algarotti's Newtoniansimo per le dame : female learning and feminist cultural appropriation -- Eighteenth-century travel writing : constructing images of the other -- Hester Piozzi's Appropriation of the image of Italy : gender and the nation.
- ISBN
- 1900650533 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2002151630
- OCLC
- 50215460
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library