Author: Hester Lynch Piozzi
Publisher: London : Seeley
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Glimpses of Italian Society in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Hester Lynch Piozzi
Publisher: London : Seeley
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher: London : Seeley
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Translating Italy for the Eighteenth Century
Author: Mirella Agorni
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317640624
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317640624
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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.
Eighteenth Century English Literature and Its Cultural Background
Author: James Edward Tobin
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819601889
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819601889
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Quarterly Bulletin
Author: Brockton Public Library (Brockton, Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Brockton Library Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Report of the State Librarian
Author: Pennsylvania State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.
Report of the State Librarian to the Legislature of Pennsylvania
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Pennsylvania State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Report of State Librarian
Author: Pennsylvania State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description