Author: Mirella Agorni
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317640624
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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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.
Author: Hester Lynch Piozzi
Publisher: London : Seeley
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Author: James Edward Tobin
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819601889
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Author: John Brewer
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300272669
Category : Romanticism
Languages : en
Pages : 561
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A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii reveal its full extent. In an era of groundbreaking scientific endeavour and violent revolution, Vesuvius became a focal point of strong emotions and political aspirations, an object of geological enquiry, and a powerful symbol of the Romantic obsession with nature. John Brewer charts the changing seismic and social dynamics of the mountain, and the meanings attached by travellers to their sublime confrontation with nature. The pyrotechnics of revolution and global warfare made volcanic activity the perfect political metaphor, fuelling revolutionary enthusiasm and conservative trepidation. From Swiss mercenaries to English entrepreneurs, French geologists to local Neapolitan guides, German painters to Scottish doctors, Vesuvius bubbled and seethed not just with lava, but with people whose passions, interests, and aims were as disparate as their origins.
Author: Osterhout Free Library (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.)
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Author: Osterhout Free Library (Wilkesbarre, Pa.)
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Author: New York State Library
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1602
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