Der Lockenraub / The Rape of the Lock (Mhra European Translations) - Softcover

Gottsched, Luise; Pope, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0947623841 ISBN 13: 9780947623845

Publisher: Texts and Translations, 2014

Synopsis

Luise Gottsched was one of the most prominent translators in eighteenth-century Germany, bringing her fellow Germans into contact with many key writers, thinkers and scientists in the European republic of letters. Der Lockenraub (1744) was the first German verse translation of Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock (1714) and an impressive achievement at a time when English was still an exotic language in Germany and England largely a terra incognita. Gottsched's translation not only helped to draw attention in Germany to one of Britain's most venerated writers. It also represented a significant effort to challenge the dominance of the French in cultural life in Germany and to offer new models for the establishment of a national literary canon.

This volume makes Gottsched's translation available in a modern critical edition for the first time. It includes the rich paratextual material - translator's preface, footnotes and appendix - which accompanied the original edition and through which Gottsched sought to promote her cultural political agenda. The introduction outlines the circumstances which gave rise to this important text and discusses its influence on the development of mock-heroic poetry in Germany. The volume thus underlines the crucial role played by translation in shaping German culture during the Enlightenment.

This edition includes the German text alongside the English original.

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About the Author

Hilary Brown is Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Birmingham.

Edition details

• Publisher: Texts and Translations
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0947623841
• ISBN 13: 9780947623845
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102
• Editor: Brown Hilary