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Translating Italy for the Eighteenth Century - British Women, Translation and Travel Writing (1739-1797) (Hardcover)
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Translating Italy for the Eighteenth Century - British Women, Translation and Travel Writing (1739-1797) (Hardcover)
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Translating Italy in the Eighteenth Century offers a historical
analysis of the role played by translation in that complex
redefinition of women's writing that was taking place in Britain in
the second half of the eighteenth century. It investigates the ways
in which women writers managed to appropriate images of Italy and
adapt them to their own purposes in a period which covers the
'moral turn' in women's writing in the 1740s and foreshadows the
Romantic interest in Italy at the end of the century. A brief
survey of translations produced by women in the period 1730-1799
provides an overview of the genres favoured by women translators,
such as the moral novel, sentimental play and a type of conduct
literature of a distinctively 'proto-feminist' character. Elizabeth
Carter's translation of Francesco Algarotti's II Newtonianesimo per
le Dame (1739) is one of the best examples of the latter kind of
texts. A close reading of the English translation indicates a
'proto-feminist' exploitation of the myth of Italian women's
cultural prestige. Another genre increasingly accessible to women,
namely travel writing, confirms this female interest in Italy.
Female travellers who visited Italy in the second half of the
century, such as Hester Piozzi, observed the state of women's
education through the lenses provided by Carter. Piozzi's image of
Italy, a paradoxical mixture of imagination and realistic
observation, became a powerful symbolic source, which enabled the
fictional image of a modern, relatively egalitarian British society
to take shape.
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