Gifting Translation in Early Modern England : : Women Writers and the Politics of Authorship / / Kirsten Inglis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Inglis, Kirsten,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World ; 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: ‘Transformance’: Renaissance Women’s Translation and the Performance of Gift Exchange --; 1. ‘Thys my poore labor to present’ --; 2. ‘For the comodite of my countrie’ --; 3. ‘Graced both with my pen and pencell’ --; 4. ‘The fruits of my pen’ --; Conclusion: ‘Shall I Apologize Translation?’ --; General Bibliography --; Appendix 1: Table of Emblems and Dedicatees in Esther Inglis’s Cinquante Emblemes Chrestiens (1624) --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048542963; 9783111023748
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048542963?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kirsten Inglis.

Translation was a critical mode of discourse for early modern writers. Gifting Translation in Early Modern England: Women Writers and the Politics of Authorship examines the intersection of translation and the culture of gift-giving in early modern England, arguing that this intersection allowed women to subvert dominant modes of discourse through acts of linguistic and inter-semiotic translation and conventions of gifting. The book considers four early modern translators: Mary Bassett, Jane Lumley, Jane Seager, and Esther Inglis. These women negotiate the rhetorics of translation and gift-culture in order to articulate political and religious affiliations and beliefs in their carefully crafted manuscript gift-books. This book offers a critical lens through which to read early modern translations in relation to the materiality of early modern gift culture.