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

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Place / Publishing House:London ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2014.
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (178 pages)
Notes:"First published 2002 by St. Jerome Publishing"--T.p. verso.
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Table of 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.