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

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• 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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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