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multilingual-matters.com>''BEHIND INVERTED COMMAS'' Translation and Anglo-German Cultural Relations in the Nineteenth Century Susanne Stark (University of Leeds) KEY FEATURES - Aims to overcome the anonymity, silence and lack of creativity associated with translation by examining a wide range of cultural implications - Includes a chapter on the role of women translators and their perception of their task - The concluding chapter explores cross-currents between translation and travel writing DESCRIPTION This book examines the activities of a network of nineteenth century intellectuals in Britain who were engaged in the rendering of German texts into English. It establishes a series of cultural implications of the process of translation in an inter-and intra-lingual context and explores cross-currents between translation and gender studies, art history, philology, historiography and travel writing. CONTENTS Introduction 1. Some Nineteenth-Century Anglo-German Crosscurrents 2. Women and Translation in the Nineteenth Century 3. From Portrait-Painting to Daguerreotyping. Notions of Fidelity in Nineteenth-Century Translation 4. Translators and Philology 5. Translating the Past 6. Translating the Foreign Gaze Epilogue Bibliography AUTHOR INFORMATION Susanne Stark is a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. She has published a variety of articles within her research interests, which include the historical and cultural contexts of translation, Anglo- German literary and cultural relations, interdisciplinary nineteenth century studies, as well as nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers. Topics in Translation No.15 (TT15) May 1999 Format: 210x148mm 200pp Hbk 1-85359-376-1 pounds49.00 USD85.00 CANdollars99.00 Pbk 1-85359-375-3 pounds 16.95 USD29.95 CANdollars 33.95 Ordering information Please email us with any queries on multiMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
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