The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France, 1500-1660 - Hardcover

by T. Demtriou (Editor), R. Tomlinson (Editor)

This book explores modalities and cultural interventions of translation in the early modern period, focusing on the shared parameters of these two translation cultures. Translation emerges as a powerful tool for thinking about community and citizenship, literary tradition and the classical past, certitude and doubt, language and the imagination.

Author Biography

Warren Boutcher, Queen Mary University of London, UK Terence Cave, University of Oxford, UK Tania Demetriou, University of York, UK Glyn P. Norton, Williams College, Massachusetts, USA John O'Brien, University of Durham, UK Patricia Palmer, King's College London, UK Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA Neil Rhodes, University of St Andrews, Scotland Kirsti Sellevold, University of Oslo, Norway Rowan Tomlinson, University of Bristol, UK Paul White, University of Manchester, UK Edward Wilson-Lee, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, UK