| Romantic Literature and the Colonised World: Lessons from Indigenous Translations 2018 Edition Contributor(s): Hessell, Nikki (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319709321 ISBN-13: 9783319709321 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $123.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 18th Century - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | Asian - General |
| Dewey: 809 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the C |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.08 lbs) 269 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book considers indigenous-language translations of Romantic texts in the British colonies. It argues that these translations uncover a latent discourse around colonisation in the original English texts. Focusing on poems by William Wordsworth, John Keats, Felicia Hemans, and Robert Burns, and on Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, it provides the first scholarly insight into the reception of major Romantic authors in indigenous languages, and makes a major contribution to the study of global Romanticism and its colonial heritage. The book demonstrates the ways in which colonial controversies around prayer, song, hospitality, naming, mapping, architecture, and medicine are drawn out by translators to make connections between Romantic literature, its preoccupations, and debates in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century colonial worlds. |