Faithful Translators: Authorship, Gender, and Religion in Early Modern England (Rethinking the Early Modern) - Softcover

Goodrich, Jaime

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810129388 ISBN 13: 9780810129382

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2013

Synopsis

With Faithful Translators Jaime Goodrich offers the first in-depth examination of women’s devotional translations and of religious translations in general within early modern England. Placing female translators such as Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, alongside their male counterparts, such as Sir Thomas More and Sir Philip Sidney, Goodrich argues that both male and female translators constructed authorial poses that allowed their works to serve four distinct cultural functions: creating privacy, spreading propaganda, providing counsel, and representing religious groups. Ultimately, Faithful Translators calls for a reconsideration of the apparent simplicity of "faithful" translations and aims to reconfigure perceptions of early modern authorship, translation, and women writers.

About this title

About the Author:

Jamie Goodrich is an Assistant Professor of English at Wayne State University

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0810129388
• ISBN 13: 9780810129382
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256