Faithful translators : authorship, gender, and religion in Early Modern England / Jaime Goodrich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodrich, Jaime, 1978- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Rethinking the Early Modern

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian literature--Translations into English--History and criticism.

Christian literature.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Women translators--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Women translators.

Women translators--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Authorship--Great Britain--History.

Authorship.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History.

Women and literature.

Translating and interpreting--England--History--16th century.

Translating and interpreting.

History.

England.

Translating and interpreting--England--History--17th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.

Summary:

With Faithful Translators Jaime Goodrich offers the first in-depth examination of women's devotional translations and of religious translations in general within early modern England. Placing female translators such as Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, alongside their male counterparts, such as Sir Thomas More and Sir Philip Sidney, Goodrich argues that both male and female translators constructed authorial poses that allowed their works to serve four distinct cultural functions: creating privacy, spreading propaganda, providing counsel, and representing religious groups. Ultimately, Faithful Translators calls for a reconsideration of the apparent simplicity of "faithful" translations and aims to reconfigure perceptions of early modern authorship, translation, and women writers. Book jacket.

Contents:

Religious translation in Early Modern England

Private spheres : Margaret Roper, Mary Basset, and Catholic identity

Royal propaganda : Mary Tudor, Elizabeth Tudor, and the Edwardian Reformation

Princely counsel : Mary Sidney Herbert, Elizabeth I, and international Protestantism

Anonymous representatives : Mary Percy, Potentiana Deacon, and monastic spirituality

Authority and authorship in Early Modern England.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (PhD)--Boston College, 2008.

ISBN:

9780810129696

0810129698

9780810129382

0810129388

OCLC:

841892454