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

Author/creator Agorni, Mirella
Format Electronic
Publication InfoManchester, UK ; Northampton, MA : St. Jerome Pub.,
Description169 p. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
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.

Contents Women's writing the second half of the eighteenth century : from the domestic novel to the representations of the foreign -- Female translators in the eighteenth century : the role of women as literary innovators -- Elizabeth Carter's translation of Algarotti's Newtoniansimo per le dame : female learning and feminist cultural appropriation -- Eighteenth-century travel writing : constructing images of the other -- Hester Piozzi's Appropriation of the image of Italy : gender and the nation.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [145]-163) and indexes.
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LCCN 2002151630
ISBN1900650533 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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