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020 _a 9781138116849 (pbk.)
040 _aIN-BhIIT
041 _aeng
082 _a809.93327
_bMAR/T
100 _a Martin, Alison
_eAuthor
_927281
245 _aTravel narratives in translation :
_b1750-1830 nationalism, ideology, gender /
_cAlison Martin and Susan Pickford
260 _aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2017.
300 _axi, 232 p. :
_bill. ;
_c22 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references. and index.
520 _aThis 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.
650 _a Literature
650 _aTravel
_91291
700 _a Pickford, Susan
_eJoint Author
_927282
942 _cTRB
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_d15317