Travel Narratives in Translation, 1750-1830: Nationalism, Ideology, Gender

ISBN-13: 9780415539944 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 244 str.

Alison Martin; Susan Pickford

Opis

This text examines how non-fictional travel accounts were rewritten, reshaped, and reoriented in translation between 1750 and 1850, a period that saw a sudden surge in the genre's popularity.

Spis treści

Introduction Alison E. Martin and Susan Pickford  Part I: Translation, Identity, and Ideology  1. The Travels and Translations of Marc-Antoine Eidous, Encyclopedic Mediator of Enlightenment Texts Clorinda Donato  2. Autopsy, Translation, and Editing in the Production of Johann Jacob Volkmann’s Historisch-Kritische Nachrichten von Italien (1770-71) Jeff Morrison  3. Translating Helvetica: Travel Writing, Intertext and Image Anthony Ozturk  4. Translation, Rewriting, Adaptation: The Itinéraire descriptif de l'Espagne by Alexandre de Laborde Inmaculada Tamarit Valles  Part II: Extra-European Travel Writing and Translation 5. Translating the Great Maritime Explorations: On John Reinhold Forster’s Translation of Bougainville’s Voyage autour du monde Vladimir Kapor  6. Translating the Pacific: Georg Forster’s A Voyage round the World/Reise um die Welt (1777-1780) Carl Niekerk  7. The Travel Writer as Translator: The Case of Friedrich Ludwig Langstedt (1750-1804) Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi  Part III: Women in Translation  8. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Letters in France: Between Ideological Turn and Women’s Writing Rachele Raus  9. A Treasure-Hunt in Europe at War, or "a passage in the history of a heart"?: The Translation of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Short Residence in Sweden into Portuguese Maria de Deus Duarte  10. Writing with "manly vigour": Translatorial Agency in Two Early-nineteenth-century English Translations of François Pouqueville’s Voyage en Morée, à Constantinople et en Albanie (1805) Susan Pickford  Contributors  Index

O autorze

Alison E. Martin is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.

Susan Pickford is Senior Lecturer in French to English translation at University of Paris 13, France.