European Literatures in Britain, 1815–1832: Romantic Translations: Romantic Translations

Author:   Diego Saglia
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   123
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9781108426411


Pages:   284
Publication Date:   18 October 2018
Format:   Hardback
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European Literatures in Britain, 1815–1832: Romantic Translations: Romantic Translations


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Studies of British Romanticism have traditionally tended to envisage it as an intensely local, indeed insular, phenomenon. Yet, just as the seemingly isolated British Isles became more and more central in international geo-political and economic contexts between the 1780s and the 1830s, so too literature and culture were characterized by an increasingly close and relevant dialogue with foreign and especially Continental European traditions, both past and contemporary. Diego Saglia casts new light on the significantly transformative impact of this dialogue on Britain during the years that saw a return to unimpeded cross-border cultural traffic after the end of the Napoleonic emergency. Focusing on modes of translation and appropriation in a variety of literary and cultural forms, this book reconsiders the notion of the supposed intrinsic insularity of Britain through the lens of new key questions about the national, international and transnational features of Romantic-period literature and culture.

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Author:   Diego Saglia
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   123
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781108426411


ISBN 10:   1108426417
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   18 October 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Continental literatures in Romantic-period Britain; 1. Periodicals and the construction of European literatures; 2. Interpreting nations: 1820s anthologies of foreign poetry; 3. Italian studies and cultural translation at Holland House; 4. Foreign presences on the national stage; 5. Continental voices and post-Napoleonic politics in Southey, Byron and Hemans; Coda: the European vistas of historical fiction; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

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'His book must be understood as an invitation to approach the big questions again, refreshed and renewed. This is the sort of intelligent challenge Romanticists and Romanticism needs. His excellent book is accommodating yet partial, compendious yet incomplete. It is an incitement to rethink Romanticism and its reach.' Bysshe Inigo Coffey, The Wordsworth Circle


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Diego Saglia is Professor of English Literature at the Università degli Studi, Parma. He is the author of Poetic Castles in Spain: British Romanticism and Figurations of Iberia (2000) and co-editor of British Romanticism and Italian Literature: Translating, Reviewing, Rewriting (with Laura Bandiera, 2005) and Byron and Italy (with Alan Rawes, 2017), as well as numerous critical essays in international journals.

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