Printers Without Borders: Translation and Textuality in the Renaissance

ISBN-13: 9781107421561 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 355 str.

A. E. B. (Florida State University) Coldiron

Opis

This book explores how England's first printers transformed English Renaissance literary culture by collaborating with translators to reshape foreign texts.

Recenzje

'This important book is indispensable reading for scholars of Renaissance translation studies, but its interdisciplinary scope makes it valuable for scholars of book history and Renaissance literatures, particularly English.' Joshua Reid, Renaissance Quarterly

Spis treści

1. 'Englishing' texts: patterns of early modern translation and transmission; 2. Caxton, translation, and the Renaissance reprint culture; 3: 'Bastard Allone': radiant translation and the status of English letters; 4. Compressed transnationalism: John Wolfe's trilingual Courtier; 5. The world on one page: an octolingual Armada broadside; 6. Macaronic verse, plurilingual printing, and the uses of translation; Afterword; Appendix; Bibliography.