Translating Italy for the eighteenth century : women, translation and travel writing, 1739-1797 / / Mirella Agorni

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790946003321
• Autore: Agorni Mirella
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014
• ISBN: 1-138-17840-3; 1-315-75992-6; 1-317-64062-4; 1-317-64063-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (178 p.)
• Disciplina: 828.608099287
• Soggetti: English prose literature - Italian influences; Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century; British - Italy - History - 18th century - Historiography; English prose literature - 18th century - History and criticism; English prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism; Translating and interpreting - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Travelers' writings, English - Italy - History and criticism; Italian language - Translating into English - History; Women travelers - Italy - History - 19th century; Women translators - Great Britain; Italy In literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "First published 2002 by St. Jerome Publishing"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Women's writing in the second half of the eighteenth century : from the domestic novel to representations of the foreign -- 2. Female translators in the eighteenth century : the role of women as literary innovators -- 3. Elizabeth Carter's translation of Algarotti's Newtonianismo per le dame : female learning and feminist cultural appropriation -- 4. Eighteenth-century travel writing : constructing images of the other -- 5. Hester Piozzi's appropriation of the image of Italy : gender and the nation.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 pro