Luise Gottsched the Translator

by: Hilary Brown

Luise Gottsched the Translator
Author: Hilary Brown

Publisher: Camden House Inc

Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 01 July 2012

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ISBN: 1571135103 ISBN 13: 9781571135100

Luise Gottsched the Translator by Hilary Brown

By focusing on Luise Gottsched's extraordinary volume and range of translations, Hilary Brown sheds an entirely new light on Gottsched and her oeuvre. Top page

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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 with her famous husband to shape German culture during the Enlightenment. In doing so it casts Gottsched and her work in an entirely new light. Including chapters on all the main subject areas and genres from which Gottsched translated, it also explores the relationship between her translations and her original works, demonstrating that translation was central to her oeuvre. A bibliography of Gottsched's translations and source texts concludes the volume. Not only a major new addition to a growing body of research on the Gottscheds, the book will also be valuable reading for scholars interested more broadly in women's writing, the history of translation, and the literature and culture of the German (and European) Enlightenment. Hilary Brown is Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Camden House Inc

City: Columbia, MD

Pages: 256

More info: height 234 mm width 157 mm weight 544 gr thickness 23 mm

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Age recommended: Professional and scholarly

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC23) 832.5 Library of Congress Subject: Germany - Intellectual life - 18th century

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