Translating Italy For The Eighteenth Century

Author : Mirella Agorni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317640632
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translating Italy for the Eighteenth Century written by Mirella Agorni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Paula Findlen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804759049
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italy’s Eighteenth Century written by Paula Findlen and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock stars," men served women as cicisbei, and dandified Englishmen became macaroni, Italy was perceived to be a place where men became women. The great publicity surrounding female poets, journalists, artists, anatomists, and scientists, and the visible roles for such women in salons, academies, and universities in many Italian cities also made visitors wonder whether women had become men. Such images, of course, were stereotypes, but they were nonetheless grounded in a reality that was unique to the Italian peninsula. This volume illuminates the social and cultural landscape of eighteenth-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour.

Author : Mirella Agorni
Publisher : Linguistic Insights
ISBN 13 : 9783034336123
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translating Italy for the Nineteenth Century written by Mirella Agorni and published by Linguistic Insights. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early nineteenth century the theory and practice of translation received special attention in Italy, a country that was still trying to define itself. Translation, particularly from English, became a means of enriching the Italian language, culture and literature, laying the foundations for the construction of a new national identity.

Author : Mónica Bolufer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031469399
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Mónica Bolufer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Italian Institute (London, England)
Publisher : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Ideas in Eighteenth-Century Italy. Lectures given at the Italian Institute 1957-1958 written by Italian Institute (London, England) and published by Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy written by Vernon Lee and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sophus A. Reinert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674063236
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translating Empire written by Sophus A. Reinert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have traditionally used the discourses of free trade and laissez faire to explain the development of political economy during the Enlightenment. But from Sophus Reinert’s perspective, eighteenth-century political economy can be understood only in the context of the often brutal imperial rivalries then unfolding in Europe and its former colonies and the positive consequences of active economic policy. The idea of economic emulation was the prism through which philosophers, ministers, reformers, and even merchants thought about economics, as well as industrial policy and reform, in the early modern period. With the rise of the British Empire, European powers and others sought to selectively emulate the British model. In mapping the general history of economic translations between 1500 and 1849, and particularly tracing the successive translations of the Bristol merchant John Cary’s seminal 1695 Essay on the State of England, Reinert makes a compelling case for the way that England’s aggressively nationalist policies, especially extensive tariffs and other intrusive market interventions, were adopted in France, Italy, Germany, and Scandinavia before providing the blueprint for independence in the New World. Relatively forgotten today, Cary’s work served as the basis for an international move toward using political economy as the prime tool of policymaking and industrial expansion. Reinert’s work challenges previous narratives about the origins of political economy and invites the current generation of economists to reexamine the foundations, and future, of their discipline.

Author : Elisabetta Caminer Turra
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226817675
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Writings of an Eighteenth-Century Venetian Woman of Letters written by Elisabetta Caminer Turra and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together Caminer's letters, poems and journalistic writings, providing an intellectual biography of this remarkable woman, as well as a glimpse into her intimate correspondence.

Author : Alison Yarrington
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401210160
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels and Translations written by Alison Yarrington and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the fascinating interactions and exchanges between British and Italian cultures from the early modern period to the present. It looks at how these exchanges were mediated through personal encounters, travel writings, and translations, involving a variety of protagonists: explorers, writers, poets, preachers, diplomats and tourists. In particular, this book examines the understanding of Italy as a destination and set of locations, each with their own distinctive geographical character, during a period which saw the creation of the modern Italian state. It also charts the shifts in travelling activity during this period, from early explorers and cartographers, via those taking part in the Grand Tour in the 18th and 19th centuries, to more modern poet-travellers and blogging tourists. Drawing upon literary studies, history, art history, cultural studies, translation studies, sociology and socio-linguistics, this volume takes a cross-disciplinary approach to its rich constellation of ‘cultural transactions’.

Author : Alessa Johns
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472035940
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750-1837 written by Alessa Johns and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of British and German processes of cultural transfer, as spearheaded by feminist reformists, from 1714 to 1837