Printers without Borders
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Printers without Borders

Translation and Textuality in the Renaissance

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Printers without Borders

Translation and Textuality in the Renaissance

About this book

This innovative study shows how printing and translation transformed English literary culture in the Renaissance. Focusing on the century after Caxton brought the press to England in 1476, Coldiron illustrates the foundational place of foreign, especially French language, materials. The book reveals unexpected foreign connections between works as different as Caxton's first printed translations, several editions of Book of the Courtier, sixteenth-century multilingual poetry, and a royal Armada broadside. Demonstrating a new way of writing literary history beyond source-influence models, the author treats the patterns and processes of translation and printing as co-transformations. This provocative book will interest scholars and advanced students of book history, translation studies, comparative literature and Renaissance literature.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Figures and tables
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1 ā€œEnglishingā€ texts: patterns of Early Modern translation and transmission
  10. 2 Caxton, translation, and the Renaissance reprint culture
  11. 3 ā€œBastard alloneā€: radiant translation and the status of English letters
  12. 4 Compressed transnationalism: John Wolfe’s trilingual Courtier
  13. 5 The world on one page: an octolingual Armada broadside
  14. 6 Macaronic verse, plurilingual printing, and the uses of translation
  15. Afterword
  16. Appendix
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index