Using a range of theoretical approaches, the five essays in this volume aim to realise an understanding of translation by critically analyzing the cultural and political implications of translation and the construction of English subjectivities at...
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Using a range of theoretical approaches, the five essays in this volume aim to realise an understanding of translation by critically analyzing the cultural and political implications of translation and the construction of English subjectivities at particular historical moments Intro -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- Figures of English Translation, 1382-1407 -- Translating the Subject: Ovid's Metamorphoses in England, 1560-7 -- Women Translators, Gender and the Cultural Context of the Scientific Revolution -- Hooked on Classics: Discourses of Allusion in the Mid- Victorian -- Novel -- 'All the Others Translate': W. H. Auden's Poetic Dislocations of Self, Nation, and Culture -- Bibliography and Abbreviations -- Index