Gifting Translation in Early Modern England

Women Writers and the Politics of Authorship
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-94-6372-120-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Reihe: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World

Translation was a critical mode of discourse for early modern writers. Gifting Translation in Early Modern England: Women Writers and the Politics of Authorship examines the intersection of translation and the culture of gift-giving in early modern England, arguing that this intersection allowed women to subvert dominant modes of discourse through acts of linguistic and inter-semiotic translation and conventions of gifting. The book considers four early modern translators: Mary Bassett, Jane Lumley, Jane Seager, and Esther Inglis. These women negotiate the rhetorics of translation and gift-culture in order to articulate political and religious affiliations and beliefs in their carefully crafted manuscript gift-books. This book offers a critical lens through which to read early modern translations in relation to the materiality of early modern gift culture.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Inglis, Kirsten

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1: 'Thys my poore labor to present', Chapter 2: 'For the comodite of my countrie', Chapter 3: 'Graced both with my pen and pencell', Chapter 4: 'The fruits of my pen', Conclusion, General Bibliography, Appendix 1: Table of Emblems and Dedicatees in Esther Inglis's Cinquante Emblemes Chrestiens, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kirsten Inglis teaches in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. She held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta’s Department of English and Film Studies. She has published essays on Shakespeare, adaptation and editing, and early modern manuscript drama. Her current research focuses on seventeenth-century women’s epistolary networks.