Translating Italy for the eighteenth century : women, translation and travel writing, 1739-1797 / Mirella Agorni. [electronic resource]
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TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2014Description: 1 online resource (178 pages)ISBN: - 9781315759920 (e-book)
- English prose literature -- Italian influences
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- British -- Italy -- History -- 18th century -- Historiography
- English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Translating and interpreting -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Travelers' writings, English -- Italy -- History and criticism
- Italian language -- Translating into English -- History
- Women travelers -- Italy -- History -- 19th century
- Women translators -- Great Britain
- Italy -- In literature
- 828.608099287
- PR129.I8 A36 2014
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
"First published 2002 by St. Jerome Publishing"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.