Author: Alison E. Martin
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474439349
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most important scientists of the 19th century. Captivating his readers with his vibrant, lyrical prose, he transformed understandings of the earth and space by rethinking nature as the interconnection of global forces. This text argues that style was key to the success of these translations and shows how Humboldt'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.
Nature Translated
Author: Alison E. Martin
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474439349
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most important scientists of the 19th century. Captivating his readers with his vibrant, lyrical prose, he transformed understandings of the earth and space by rethinking nature as the interconnection of global forces. This text argues that style was key to the success of these translations and shows how Humboldt'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.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474439349
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most important scientists of the 19th century. Captivating his readers with his vibrant, lyrical prose, he transformed understandings of the earth and space by rethinking nature as the interconnection of global forces. This text argues that style was key to the success of these translations and shows how Humboldt'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.
Studies of Nature, translated by H. Hunter
Author: Jacques Henri Bernardin de SAINT PIERRE
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Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Languages : en
Pages : 514
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The true meaning of the System of Nature. Translated from the French, with notes
Author: Claude Adrien HELVÉTIUS (pseud.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Studies of Nature ... Translated by Henry Hunter. Second edition. [With plates.]
Author: Jacques Henri Bernardin de SAINT PIERRE
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Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Pages : 710
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Études de la nature. Studies of Nature. Translated from the French, etc. With plates
Author: Jacques Henri Bernardin de SAINT PIERRE
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Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Studies of Nature, Translated from the French, ... Carefully Abridged, with a Copious Index, by L. T. Rede
Author: Jacques Henri Bernardin de SAINT PIERRE
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Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Languages : en
Pages : 442
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The System of Nature ... Translated (by Samuel Wilkinson) from the Original French of M. de Mirabaud [or Rather, of Baron D'Holbach].
Author: Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (baron d')
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Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Languages : en
Pages : 322
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A General System of Nature ... Translated from Gmelin's Last Edition, ... Amended and Enlarged by the Improvements and Discoveries of Later Naturalists, ... with (life ... of Linné) ... Copperplates, (and a Dictionary Explanatory of the Terms which Occur in the ... Departments of Natural History,) by W. Turton
Author: Carl von Linné
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Languages : en
Pages : 980
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Pages : 980
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Nature in Translation
Author: Shiho Satsuka
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822375605
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Nature in Translation is an ethnographic exploration in the cultural politics of the translation of knowledge about nature. Shiho Satsuka follows the Japanese tour guides who lead hikes, nature walks, and sightseeing bus tours for Japanese tourists in Canada's Banff National Park and illustrates how they aspired to become local "nature interpreters" by learning the ecological knowledge authorized by the National Park. The guides assumed the universal appeal of Canada’s magnificent nature, but their struggle in translating nature reveals that our understanding of nature—including scientific knowledge—is always shaped by the specific socio-cultural concerns of the particular historical context. These include the changing meanings of work in a neoliberal economy, as well as culturally-specific dreams of finding freedom and self-actualization in Canada's vast nature. Drawing on nearly two years of fieldwork in Banff and a decade of conversations with the guides, Satsuka argues that knowing nature is an unending process of cultural translation, full of tensions, contradictions, and frictions. Ultimately, the translation of nature concerns what counts as human, what kind of society is envisioned, and who is included and excluded in the society as a legitimate subject.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822375605
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Nature in Translation is an ethnographic exploration in the cultural politics of the translation of knowledge about nature. Shiho Satsuka follows the Japanese tour guides who lead hikes, nature walks, and sightseeing bus tours for Japanese tourists in Canada's Banff National Park and illustrates how they aspired to become local "nature interpreters" by learning the ecological knowledge authorized by the National Park. The guides assumed the universal appeal of Canada’s magnificent nature, but their struggle in translating nature reveals that our understanding of nature—including scientific knowledge—is always shaped by the specific socio-cultural concerns of the particular historical context. These include the changing meanings of work in a neoliberal economy, as well as culturally-specific dreams of finding freedom and self-actualization in Canada's vast nature. Drawing on nearly two years of fieldwork in Banff and a decade of conversations with the guides, Satsuka argues that knowing nature is an unending process of cultural translation, full of tensions, contradictions, and frictions. Ultimately, the translation of nature concerns what counts as human, what kind of society is envisioned, and who is included and excluded in the society as a legitimate subject.
Natures in Translation
Author: Alan Bewell
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421420961
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Understanding the dynamics of British colonialism and the enormous ecological transformations that took place through the mobilization and globalized management of natures. For many critics, Romanticism is synonymous with nature writing, for representations of the natural world appear during this period with a freshness, concreteness, depth, and intensity that have rarely been equaled. Why did nature matter so much to writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? And how did it play such an important role in their understanding of themselves and the world? In Natures in Translation, Alan Bewell argues that there is no Nature in the singular, only natures that have undergone transformation through time and across space. He examines how writers—as disparate as Erasmus and Charles Darwin, Joseph Banks, Gilbert White, William Bartram, William Wordsworth, John Clare, and Mary Shelley—understood a world in which natures were traveling and resettling the globe like never before. Bewell presents British natural history as a translational activity aimed at globalizing local natures by making them mobile, exchangeable, comparable, and representable. Bewell explores how colonial writers, in the period leading up to the formulation of evolutionary theory, responded to a world in which new natures were coming into being while others disappeared. For some of these writers, colonial natural history held the promise of ushering in a “cosmopolitan” nature in which every species, through trade and exchange, might become a true “citizen of the world.” Others struggled with the question of how to live after the natures they depended upon were gone. Ultimately, Natures in Translation demonstrates that—far from being separate from the dominant concerns of British imperial culture—nature was integrally bound up with the business of empire.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421420961
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Understanding the dynamics of British colonialism and the enormous ecological transformations that took place through the mobilization and globalized management of natures. For many critics, Romanticism is synonymous with nature writing, for representations of the natural world appear during this period with a freshness, concreteness, depth, and intensity that have rarely been equaled. Why did nature matter so much to writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? And how did it play such an important role in their understanding of themselves and the world? In Natures in Translation, Alan Bewell argues that there is no Nature in the singular, only natures that have undergone transformation through time and across space. He examines how writers—as disparate as Erasmus and Charles Darwin, Joseph Banks, Gilbert White, William Bartram, William Wordsworth, John Clare, and Mary Shelley—understood a world in which natures were traveling and resettling the globe like never before. Bewell presents British natural history as a translational activity aimed at globalizing local natures by making them mobile, exchangeable, comparable, and representable. Bewell explores how colonial writers, in the period leading up to the formulation of evolutionary theory, responded to a world in which new natures were coming into being while others disappeared. For some of these writers, colonial natural history held the promise of ushering in a “cosmopolitan” nature in which every species, through trade and exchange, might become a true “citizen of the world.” Others struggled with the question of how to live after the natures they depended upon were gone. Ultimately, Natures in Translation demonstrates that—far from being separate from the dominant concerns of British imperial culture—nature was integrally bound up with the business of empire.