Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond the Female
Tradition is a major new intervention in research on early modern
translation and will be an essential point of reference for anyone
interested in the history of women translators. Research on women
translators has often focused on early modern England; the example
of early modern England has been taken as the norm for the rest of
the continent and has shaped research on gender and translation
more generally. This book brings a new European perspective to the
field by introducing the case of Germany. It draws attention to
forty women who can be identified as translators in sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century Germany and shows how their work does not fit
easily into traditional narratives about marginalization and
subversiveness. The study uses the example of Germany to argue
against reading the work of translating women primarily through the
lens of gender and to challenge claims about the existence of a
female translation tradition which transcends the boundaries of
time and place. Broadening our perspective to include Germany
provides a more nuanced and informed account of the position of
women within European translation cultures and forces us to rethink
gender as a category of analysis in translation history. The book
makes the case for a new 'woman-interrogated' approach to
translation history (to borrow a concept from Carol Maier) and as
such it will provide a blueprint for future work in the area.
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