Travel Narratives in Translation, 1750-1830: Nationalism, Ideology, Gender (Routledge Research in Travel Writing #6)

Synopsis

This book examines how non-fictional travel accounts were rewritten, reshaped, and reoriented in translation between 1750 and 1850, a period that saw a sudden surge in the genre's popularity. It explores how these translations played a vital role in the transmission and circulation of knowledge about foreign peoples, lands, and customs in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. The collection makes an important contribution to travel writing studies by looking beyond metaphors of mobility and cultural transfer to focus specifically on what happens to travelogues in translation. Chapters range from discussing essential differences between the original and translated text to relations between authors and translators, from intra-European narratives of Grand Tour travel to scientific voyages round the world, and from established male travellers and translators to their historically less visible female counterparts. Drawing on European travel writing in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, the book charts how travelogues were selected for translation; how they were reworked to acquire new aesthetic, political, or gendered identities; and how they sometimes acquired a radically different character and content to meet the needs and expectations of an emergent international readership. The contributors address aesthetic, political, and gendered aspects of travel writing in translation, drawing productively on other disciplines and research areas that encompass aesthetics, the history of science, literary geography, and the history of the book.

Copyright:

2012

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

232 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781136244667

Related ISBNs:

9780203103425, 9780415539944, 9781138116849

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

10/10/22

Copyrighted By:

Routledge

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Travel, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Communication

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Alison Martin

Edited by:

Susan Pickford