Nature Translated: Alexander Von Humboldt's Works in Nineteenth-Century Britain

ISBN-13: 9781474439329 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 280 str.

Alison E. Martin

Opis

This book shows how Alexander vonHumboldt's British translators, now largely forgotten figures, were pivotal in moulding his prose and his public persona as they reconfigured his works for readers in Britain and beyond.

Spis treści

List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Styling Science; 2. Dispute and Dissociation: John Black’s Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain (1811); 3. ‘A Colossal Literary and Scientific Task’: Helen Maria Williams and the Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent (1814-29); 4. ‘A Plain and Unassuming Style’: Thomasina Ross and Humboldt’s Travels (1852-3); 5. The Poetry of Geography: The Ansichten der Natur in English Translation; 6. Cosmos: The Universe Translated; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.