Gifting Translation in Early Modern England
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Gifting Translation in Early Modern England

Women Writers and the Politics of Authorship

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Gifting Translation in Early Modern England

Women Writers and the Politics of Authorship

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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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040771952
Topic
History
Subtopic
Literary Criticism for Women Authors
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: ‘Transformance’: Renaissance Women’s Translation and the Performance of Gift Exchange
  9. 1 ‘Thys my poore labor to present’: Mary Bassett's Translation of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History
  10. 2 ‘For the comodite of my countrie’: Nation, Gift, and Family in Lady Jane Lumley’s Tragedie of Iphigeneia
  11. 3 ‘Graced both with my pen and pencell’: Prophecy and Politics in Jane Seager’s Divine Prophecies of the Ten Sibills
  12. 4 ‘The fruits of my pen’: Esther Inglis's Translation of Georgette de Montenay's Emblemes ou Devises Chrestiennes
  13. Conclusion: ‘Shall I Apologize Translation?’
  14. General Bibliography
  15. Appendix 1: Table of Emblems and Dedicatees in Esther Inglis’s Cinquante Emblemes Chrestiens (1624)
  16. Index