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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... eighteenth-century women's interest in Italy. Following the hypothesis that translation activities become particularly significant at moments of cultural change, I have outlined a brief survey of the translations produced by women in ...
... women writers' persistent interest in Italy after the mid-century is proved by the many visits made there, and by the two travel accounts published by female authors before the end of the century, Lady Miller's Letters from Italy (1776) ...
British Women, Translation and Travel Writing (1739-1797) Mirella Agorni. 1. Women's. Writing. in. the. Second. Half. of. the. Eighteenth. Century ... eighteenth century. Bringing together historical, social and economic issues and examining ...
... women's literary history.1 Barker and Chalus (1997) argue that, until recently, scholars working within the tradition of women's history generally laid more emphasis on the common aspects of women's historical experiences, at the ...
... gender (socially and linguistically constructed), culture (discursively constituted as a set of meaningful social relationships, to be negotiated by individuals in the specific contexts of time and place) and on a notion of women's ...
Inhalt
Female Translators in the Eighteenth Century The Role of Women as Literary | |
Elizabeth Carters Translation of Algarottis Newtonianismo per le Dame | |
EighteenthCentury Travel Writing Constructing Images of the Other | |
Hester Piozzis Appropriation of the Image of Italy Gender and the Nation | |
Conclusion | |
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