Translating Italy for the Eighteenth Century: British Women, Translation and Travel Writing (1739-1797)Routledge, 08.04.2014 - 178 Seiten Translating Italy in the Eighteenth Century offers a historical analysis of the role played by translation in that complex redefinition of women's writing that was taking place in Britain in the second half of the eighteenth century. It investigates the ways in which women writers managed to appropriate images of Italy and adapt them to their own purposes in a period which covers the 'moral turn' in women's writing in the 1740s and foreshadows the Romantic interest in Italy at the end of the century.
A brief survey of translations produced by women in the period 1730-1799 provides an overview of the genres favoured by women translators, such as the moral novel, sentimental play and a type of conduct literature of a distinctively 'proto-feminist' character. Elizabeth Carter's translation of Francesco Algarotti's II Newtonianesimo per le Dame (1739) is one of the best examples of the latter kind of texts. A close reading of the English translation indicates a 'proto-feminist' exploitation of the myth of Italian women's cultural prestige.
Another genre increasingly accessible to women, namely travel writing, confirms this female interest in Italy. Female travellers who visited Italy in the second half of the century, such as Hester Piozzi, observed the state of women's education through the lenses provided by Carter. Piozzi's image of Italy, a paradoxical mixture of imagination and realistic observation, became a powerful symbolic source, which enabled the fictional image of a modern, relatively egalitarian British society to take shape. |
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... fact fictitious in the original. The reception of Carter's translation is suggestive of a feminist exploitation of representations of the foreign: the myth of Italian women's cultural prestige – based on the fact that a few Italian ...
... fact that women could make money by writing. Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for. It might still be well to sneer at 'blue stockings with an itch for scribbling', but it could not be denied that they could put money in their ...
... fact that women appeared to dominate this genre as both producers and consumers, have been taken as evidence of the rise of the woman novelist in the eighteenth century. Publication and commercial success have been considered the ...
... fact it addressed those classes, the so-called middling sort, which stood between the aristocracy and the labouring classes. By targeting this readership as a consistent whole at a time when it was not yet perceived as such, literature ...
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2 Female Translators in the Eighteenth Century The Role of Women as Literary Innovators ... | 33 |
3 Elizabeth Carters Translation of Algarottis Newtonianismo per le Dame Female Learning and Feminist Cultural Appropriation ... | 56 |
4 EighteenthCentury Travel Writing Constructing Images of the Other | 90 |
5 Hester Piozzis Appropriation of the Image of Italy Gender and the Nation | 111 |
Conclusion | 142 |
References | 145 |
Index | 164 |
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