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Guyda Armstrong - The English Boccaccio. A History in Books.  - 9781442646032 - V9781442646032
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The English Boccaccio. A History in Books.

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Description for The English Boccaccio. A History in Books. Drawing on the disciplines of book history, translation studies, comparative literature, and visual studies, the author focuses on the book as an object, examining how specific copies of manuscripts and printed books were presented to an English readership by a variety of translators. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 496 pages, 26. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 900.

The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio has had a long and colourful history in English translation. This new interdisciplinary study presents the first exploration of the reception of Boccaccio’s writings in English literary culture, tracing his presence from the early fifteenth century to the 1930s. Guyda Armstrong tells this story through a wide-ranging journey through time and space – from the medieval reading communities of Naples and Avignon to the English court of Henry VIII, from the censorship of the Decameron to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, from the world of fine-press printing to the clandestine pornographers of 1920s New York, and much ... Read more

Drawing on the disciplines of book history, translation studies, comparative literature, and visual studies, the author focuses on the book as an object, examining how specific copies of manuscripts and printed books were presented to an English readership by a variety of translators. Armstrong is thereby able to reveal how the medieval text in translation is remade and re-authorized for every new generation of readers.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
496
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Toronto Italian Studies
Condition
New
Weight
891g
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442646032
SKU
V9781442646032
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Guyda Armstrong
Guyda Armstrong is a senior lecturer in Italian in the School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures at the University of Manchester.

Reviews for The English Boccaccio. A History in Books.
‘Some big books are merely big; this one is monumental… This is a masterly contribution not only to Boccaccio scholarship but also to book history, translation studies, reception theory and the understanding of cultural relationships between English-speaking world and Italy. Essential. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.’
S. Botterill
Choice Magazine; vol 51:07:14
‘This beautifully produced, referenced and indexed ... Read more

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