Translation and Nation : : Towards A Cultural Politics of Englishness / / ed. by Roger Ellis, Liz Oakley-Brown.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Ellis, Roger,; Emig, Rainer,; Knellwolf, Christa,; Oakley-Brown, Liz,; Osborne, Hugh,
• HerausgeberIn: Ellis, Roger,; Oakley-Brown, Liz,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in Translation
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

In recent years the marginal position which has defined translators and their texts has come under increasing and sustained challenge. However, although translation and subjectivity has been thoroughly considered in terms of post-colonialism and post-structuralism, there are few discussions which focus specifically on the construction of "Englishness" through vernacular translation. Using a range of theoretical approaches the five essays in this volume aim to realise such an understanding of translation by critically analyzing the cultural and political implications of translation and the construction of English subjectivities at particular historical moments.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Figures of English Translation, 1382–1407 -- Chapter 2. Translating the Subject: Ovid’s Metamorphoses in England, 1560–7 -- Chapter 3. Women Translators, Gender and the Cultural Context of the Scientific Revolution -- Chapter 4. Hooked on Classics: Discourses of Allusion in the Mid-Victorian Novel -- Chapter 5. ‘All the Others Translate’: W.H. Auden’s Poetic Dislocations of Self, Nation, and Culture -- Bibliography and Abbreviations -- Index