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''BEHIND INVERTED COMMAS''
Translation and Anglo-German Cultural Relations in the Nineteenth
Century
Susanne Stark (University of Leeds)
KEY FEATURES
- Aims to overcome the anonymity, silence and lack of creativity
associated with translation by examining a wide range of cultural
implications
- Includes a chapter on the role of women translators and their
perception of their task
- The concluding chapter explores cross-currents between translation
and travel writing
DESCRIPTION
This book examines the activities of a network of nineteenth century
intellectuals in Britain who were engaged in the rendering of German
texts into English. It establishes a series of cultural implications
of the process of translation in an inter- and intra-lingual context
and explores cross-currents between translation and gender studies,
art history, philology, historiography and travel writing.
CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Some Nineteenth-Century Anglo-German Crosscurrents
2. Women and Translation in the Nineteenth Century
3. From Portrait-Painting to Daguerreotyping. Notions of Fidelity in
Nineteenth-Century Translation
4. Translators and Philology
5. Translating the Past
6. Translating the Foreign Gaze
Epilogue
Bibliography
AUTHOR INFORMATION
Susanne Stark is a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. She
has published a variety of articles within her research interests,
which include the historical and cultural contexts of translation,
Anglo-German literary and cultural relations, interdisciplinary
nineteenth century studies, as well as nineteenth- and
twentieth-century women writers.
Topics in Translation No.15 (TT15)
May 1999 Format: 210x148mm 200pp
Hbk 1-85359-376-1 stlg49.00 ($85.00)
Pbk 1-85359-375-3 stlg16.95 ($29.95)
http://www.multi.demon.co.uk/stark.htm
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