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Author Agorni, Mirella, author.

Title Translating Italy for the eighteenth century : women, translation and travel writing, 1739-1797 / Mirella Agorni.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (178 pages)
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Note "First published 2002 by St. Jerome Publishing"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Women's writing in the second half of the eighteenth century : from the domestic novel to representations of the foreign -- 2. Female translators in the eighteenth century : the role of women as literary innovators -- 3. Elizabeth Carter's translation of Algarotti's Newtonianismo per le dame : female learning and feminist cultural appropriation -- 4. Eighteenth-century travel writing : constructing images of the other -- 5. Hester Piozzi's appropriation of the image of Italy : gender and the nation.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject English prose literature -- Italian influences.
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
British -- Italy -- History -- 18th century -- Historiography.
English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Translating and interpreting -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Travelers' writings, English -- Italy -- History and criticism.
Italian language -- Translating into English -- History.
Women travelers -- Italy -- History -- 19th century.
Women translators -- Great Britain.
Italy -- In literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Agorni, Mirella. Translating Italy for the eighteenth century : women, translation and travel writing, 1739-1797. London : Routledge, 2014 169 pages 9781900650533
ISBN 9781900650533 (pbk.)
1900650533 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781315759920 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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