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Hilary Brown - Luise Gottsched the Translator - 9781571135100 - V9781571135100
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Luise Gottsched the Translator

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Description for Luise Gottsched the Translator Hardcover. By focusing on Luise Gottsched's extraordinary volume and range of translations, Hilary Brown sheds an entirely new light on Gottsched and her oeuvre. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7, 7 black and white. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
By focusing on Luise Gottsched's extraordinary volume and range of translations, Hilary Brown sheds an entirely new light on Gottsched and her oeuvre. Critics have paid increasing attention to the oeuvre of Luise Gottsched (1713-62), Germany's first prominent woman of letters, but have neglected her lifelong work of translation, which encompassed over fifty volumes and an extraordinary range, from drama and poetry to philosophy, history, archaeology, even theoretical physics. This first comprehensive overview of Gottsched's translations places them in the context of eighteenth-century intellectual, literary, and cultural history, showing that they were part of an ambitious, progressive program undertaken ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571135100
SKU
V9781571135100
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Reviews for Luise Gottsched the Translator
[G]round-breaking . . . . [T]his is an excellent study. It opens up a woefully neglected aspect of research into Luise Gottsched and points the way to the need for further exploration of early women translators and indeed of the scope and role of translation more generally.
John L. Flood,
MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
[A] welcome reassessment of Luise ... Read more

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