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Printers without borders : translation and textuality in the Renaissance / A.E.B. Coldiron.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coldiron, A. E. B. (Anne Elizabeth Banks), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Translating and interpreting--England--History--16th century.
- Translating and interpreting.
- Book industries and trade--England--History--16th century.
- Book industries and trade.
- Renaissance--England.
- Renaissance.
- Printers--England--History--16th century.
- Printers.
- Transmission of texts--England--History--16th century.
- Transmission of texts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 339 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This innovative study shows how printing and translation transformed English literary culture in the Renaissance. Focusing on the century after Caxton brought the press to England in 1476, Coldiron illustrates the foundational place of foreign, especially French language, materials. The book reveals unexpected foreign connections between works as different as Caxton's first printed translations, several editions of Book of the Courtier, sixteenth-century multilingual poetry, and a royal Armada broadside. Demonstrating a new way of writing literary history beyond source-influence models, the author treats the patterns and processes of translation and printing as co-transformations. This provocative book will interest scholars and advanced students of book history, translation studies, comparative literature and Renaissance literature.
- Contents:
- 1. 'Englishing' texts: patterns of early modern translation and transmission
- 2. Caxton, translation, and the Renaissance reprint culture
- 3: 'Bastard Allone': radiant translation and the status of English letters
- 4. Compressed transnationalism: John Wolfe's trilingual courtier
- 5. The world on one page: an octolingual Armada broadside
- 6. Macaronic verse, plurilingual printing, and the uses of translation.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-316-08324-1
- 1-316-05724-0
- 1-316-05487-X
- 1-316-08088-9
- 1-316-07615-6
- 1-107-42156-X
- 1-316-07378-5
- 1-139-68105-2
- 1-316-07852-3
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