Translation and Transposition in the Early Modern Period

Karen Bennett is Associate Professor in Translation at Nova University, Lisbon, and researcher with the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS), where she coordinates the Translationality strand. She is general editor of the journal Translation Matters.Rogério Miguel Puga is Associate Professor in English Studies at Nova University, Lisbon, and researcher with the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS). He is also Research Fellow at CHAM (Centre for Humanities), Nova University, Lisbon. He is co-editor of the Anglo-Iberian Studies series (Peter Lang).

• Introduction:The Slow Transition: Reconfiguring Translation in the Early Modern PeriodKaren BennettIntroduction:The Slow Transition: Reconfiguring Translation in the Early Modern PeriodKaren BennettPART I. GENERAL REFLECTIONS1. Translation as Transposition in Early Modern EuropePeter Burke2. Connected Identities: Representing Women in Seventeenth-century English Translation and PrintMarie-Alice Belle and Marie-France GuénettePART II. TRANSLATING KNOWLEDGE3. Translation, Humanism and Politics in Early Modern Germany: Xenophon’s Hiero Translated by Adam Werner von ThemarKarl Gerhard Hempel4. The Translational Practice of a Low German SurgeonChiara Benati5. Mary Delany’s British Flora (1769): Female Agency in the Translation of ScienceTiago Cardoso6. Tıbb-ı Cedid (New Medicine) as a New Era in the Ottoman Medicine: Medical Texts Translated in the Eighteenth-century Ottoman EmpireSemih SarigülPARTIII. LITERARY TRANSFIGURATIONS 7. Translation as Migration: Traveling Literary Classics into and from ArabicFerial Ghazoul8. "Too Learned and Poetical for our Audience": Translation, (self-)canonisation and Satire in Jonson’s Bartholomew FairRui Carvalho Homem9. "A Fantasticall Rapsody of Dialogisme": John Eliot and the Translational GrotesqueJoseph HankinsonPARTIV. TRAVEL AND TRANSLATION 10. Indirect Translation and Discursive Identity in John Florio’s Two NavigationsDonatella Montini11. Samuel Purchas Translates China via Iberia: Fernão Mendes Pinto’s Peregrinação (1614) in Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes (1625)Rogério Miguel Puga12. Bolseiros, Lançados, Línguas, Jurubaças and Other Interpreters of Portuguese in Macau and Africa in the Early Modern PeriodJohn Milton