Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England / Edition 1

by Liz Oakley-Brown

Overview

In Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England, Liz Oakley-Brown considers English versions of the Metamorphoses - a poem concerned with translation and transformation on a multiplicity of levels - as important sites of social and historical difference from the fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. Through the exploration of a range of canonical and marginal texts, from Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus to women's embroideries of Ovidian myths, Oakley-Brown argues that translation is central to the construction of national and gendered identities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780754651550
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/28/2006
Series:	Studies in European Cultural Transition , #34
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Liz Oakley-Brown is Lecturer in Renaissance Writing at Lancaster University, UK

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: translation and transformation; Titus Andronicus and the sexual politics of translation; The heterotopic place of translation: The Third Part of the Countesse of Pembrokes Ivychurch. Entituled, Amintas Dale; Violence in translation: George Sandys's Metamorphosis Englished; From Sandys's Ghost to Samuel Garth: Ovid's Metamorphoses in early 18th-century England; In Arachne's trace: women as translators of the Metamorphoses; The curious case of Caxton's Ovid; Epilogue: translation and fragmentation; Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

'... Oakley-Brown's appetite for unfamiliar material is admirable; the chapter on Caxton, whose prose Metamorphoses has yet to be edited in its entirety, is especially welcome.' Renaissance Quarterly '... Oakley-Brown's scope is wide ranging, but this is by no means at the expense of detailed textual analysis... makes a good job of what it sets out to do, making a valuable contribution to the study of Metamorphoses and its afterlife and early modern translation practices.' English Studies ’...lively, knowledgeable, challenging book.’ Notes and Queries

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