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Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation

Beyond the Female Tradition

Brown, Hilary (Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies, University of Birmingham)

Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation

Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation

Beyond the Female Tradition

Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation

 

A fresh perspective on women translators in the early modern period, with particular focus on the relatively underexplored culture of translation in Germany.


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Beschrijving Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation

Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond the Female Tradition is a major new intervention in research on early modern translation and will be an essential point of reference for anyone interested in the history of women translators. Research on women translators has often focused on early modern England; the example of early modern England has been taken as the norm for the rest of the continent and has shaped research on gender and translation more generally. This book brings a new European perspective to the field by introducing the case of Germany. It draws attention to forty women who can be identified as translators in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany and shows how their work does not fit easily into traditional narratives about marginalization and subversiveness. The study uses the example of Germany to argue against reading the work of translating women primarily through the lens of gender and to challenge claims about the existence of a female translation tradition which transcends the boundaries of time and place.

Broadening our perspective to include Germany provides a more nuanced and informed account of the position of women within European translation cultures and forces us to rethink gender as a category of analysis in translation history. The book makes the case for a new 'woman-interrogated' approach to translation history (to borrow a concept from Carol Maier) and as such it will provide a blueprint for future work in the area.


ISBN
9780192844347
Pagina's
314
Verschenen
NUR
320
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP Oxford

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