The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France, 1500-1660

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Tania Demetriou, Rowan Tomlinson

   Pages 1-21

3. From Cultural Translation to Cultures of Translation?

   • Warren Boutcher

   Pages 22-40

4. Francis I’s Royal Readers

   • Glyn P. Norton

   Pages 41-53

5. Pure and Common Greek in Early Tudor England

   • Neil Rhodes

   Pages 54-70

6. From Commentary to Translation

   • Paul White

   Pages 71-85

7. Periphrōn Penelope and her Early Modern Translations

   • Tania Demetriou

   Pages 86-111

8. Richard Stanihurst’s Aeneis and the English of Ireland

   • Patricia Palmer

   Pages 112-127

9. Women’s Weapons

   • Edward Wilson-Lee

   Pages 128-144

10. ‘Peradventure’ in Florio’s Montaigne

    • Kirsti Sellevold

    Pages 145-161

11. Translating Scepticism and Transferring Knowledge in Montaigne’s House

    • John O’Brien

    Pages 162-174

12. Urquhart’s Inflationary Universe

    • Anne Lake Prescott

    Pages 175-190

13. Epilogue

    • Terence Cave

    Pages 191-200

14. Back Matter

    Pages 201-231

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This book explores modalities and cultural interventions of translation in the early modern period, focusing on the shared parameters of these two translation cultures. Translation emerges as a powerful tool for thinking about community and citizenship, literary tradition and the classical past, certitude and doubt, language and the imagination.

• culture
• Imagination
• Renaissance
• Tradition
• British and Irish Literature

“A highly revealing and welcome contribution to the study of transnational and multilingual translation in Renaissance Europe. … The book succeeds in presenting significant evidence for cultural exchanges between France and England, and for the role played by translators in the transmission and reception of ideas and texts. The collection is certainly capable of convincing scholars and readers to appreciate the multiple agencies at play in the production of translations … .” (Andrea Rizzi, Translation Studies, Vol. 10 (1), 2017)

• University of York, UK

  Tania Demetriou

• University of Bristol, UK

  Rowan Tomlinson

Warren Boutcher, Queen Mary University of London, UK Terence Cave, University of Oxford, UK Tania Demetriou, University of York, UK Glyn P. Norton, Williams College, Massachusetts, USA John O'Brien, University of Durham, UK Patricia Palmer, King's College London, UK Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA Neil Rhodes, University of St Andrews, Scotland Kirsti Sellevold, University of Oslo, Norway Rowan Tomlinson, University of Bristol, UK Paul White, University of Manchester, UK Edward Wilson-Lee, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, UK

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