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Translation and Polyglossia in Early Modern English Literature

The Rhetoric of Teacherly Texts

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Translation and Polyglossia in Early Modern English Literature: The Rhetoric of Teacherly Texts studies the role of Romance languages in shaping early modern English literature from about 1550 to about 1650, analyzing interconnected processes of translation and multilingualism that relied on a pedagogical rhetoric.The book uses polyglossia as both an analytical tool and critical framework, providing fresh insights into the reception of continental literature and foreign languages during this transformative period. It offers a comprehensive understanding of linguistic exchanges in early modern England by combining methodologies from book history, translation studies, linguistics, and lexicology with detailed literary close reading. Readers will discover how foreign words, phrases, and entire texts interacted with English across diverse genres—including satiric and narrative prose, religious controversy, verse, pedagogical manuals, and dictionaries—in Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish.This book is intended for postgraduate students and scholars specializing in early modern English literature and culture, particularly those interested in translation studies, multilingualism, Renaissance literary history, and cross-cultural literary exchanges.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-11-04
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLanguages and Culture in History
Antal sidor384
FörlagPallas Publications
ISBN9789048569410

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Table of contentsPrefaceNote on spellingLIST OF FIGURES?Part 1 – Origins and meeting points: rhetoricChapter 1 – Exordium: language norms and literary licencesLanguages, literature, and pedagogyStylistic decorum: matching pairs and dialectical dyadsLicense to mix: a history of minglingLocating authority: visibility, agency, communicationChapter 2 – Babel and the barbarians: mixing or matchingBabbling Babel: confusion leading to divisionChurch Latin and Pedlar’s French: against mixingPentecost and strange tongues: a plea for translationBarbarous connections: rhetoric and religionPart 2 – The parallel model: didacticismChapter 3 – Learning French with Du Bartas: didactic uses of literature and literary approaches to didacticismA kingly apprentice and his imitators: “poeticall exercises”A kingly apprentice and his imitators: poetical and political alignmentAn English teacher of French and his rivals: directionality in language manualsAn English teacher of French and his rivals: “inimitable stile”Chapter 4 – Moral lessons and language lessonsWolfe’s trilingual Courtier: them and usA polyglot fanciulla?From Grisel y Mirabella to Aurelio and IsabellaGuicciardini’s Two Discourses, from sequential to parallel versionsPart 3 – The combinatory model: authorityChapter 5 – The translator’s polyglot visibility: Thomas Shelton’s translation of Don Quixote (1612, 1620)Authority “on the margent”: dealing with a polyglot source text through deletion and substitutionThe translator as lexicographer: shaping a polyglot target text with loanwords and loan translationThe annotator as cultural broker: sharing information between estrangement and naturalizationLiterary criticism from the margins: grudging faithfulness verging on censorshipChapter 6 – The polyglot polemicists of the Swetnam ControversyPolemic, polyphony, and polyglossia: Tudor precedentsClassical quotations and authorityTranslation and adaptationThe authority of vernacular polyglossiaPeroratio – Rhetoric, didacticism, and authorityRecombinationHow many models does it take to change a paradigm?Texts and peopleCirculationsIndex (to be compiled by the author)