The culture of translation in early modern England and France, 1500-1660 /

This collection explores the varied modalities and cultural interventions of translation in early modern England and France. Paying attention to the shared parameters of these two translation cultures, it argues for their interaction as an important and untold story. The essays touch on key figures...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Demetriou, Tania, 1979- (Editor), Tomlinson, Rowan Cerys, 1978- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:	Early modern literature in history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Subjects:	Translating and interpreting > Great Britain > History > 16th century. Translating and interpreting > Great Britain > History > 17th century. Translating and interpreting > France > History > 16th century. Translating and interpreting > France > History > 17th century. English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. French literature > 16th century > History and criticism. French literature > 17th century > History and criticism. Translations > Publishing > Great Britain > History. Translations > Publishing > France > History. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French. LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.

Table of Contents:

From cultural translation to cultures of tradition? Early modern readers , sellers and patrons / Warren Boutcher
Francis I's royal readers: translation and the triangulation of power in early renaissance France (1533-4) / Glyn P. Norton
Pure and common Greek in early Tudor England / Neil Rhodes
From commentary to translation: figurative representations of the text in the French renaissance / Paul White
Periphrōn Penelope and her early modern transations / Tania Demetriou
Richard Stanihurst's Aneis and the English of Ireland / Patricia Palmer
Women's weapons: country house diplomacy in the Countess of Pembroke's French translations / Edward Wilson-Lee
'Peradventure' in Florio's Montaigne / Kirsti Sellevold
Translating scepticism and transferring knowledge in Montaigne's House / John O'Brien
Urquhart's inflationary universe / Anne Lake Prescott.