Table Of ContentBehind Inverted Commas : Translation and
title: Anglo-German Cultural Relations in the
Nineteenth Century Topics in Translation ; 15
author: Stark, Susanne.
publisher: Multilingual Matters
isbn10 | asin: 1853593761
print isbn13: 9781853593765
ebook isbn13: 9780585199290
language: English
German language--Translating into English--
History--19th century, Translating and
interpreting--Great Britain--History--19th
subject
century, German literature--Appreciation--Great
Britain--History--19th century, German
literature--Translations into English--Hist
publication date: 1999
lcc: PF3498.S73 1999eb
ddc: 428/.0231/09034
German language--Translating into English--
History--19th century, Translating and
interpreting--Great Britain--History--19th
subject:
century, German literature--Appreciation--Great
Britain--History--19th century, German
literature--Translations into English--Hist
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'Behind Inverted Commas'
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Topics In Translation
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TOPICS IN TRANSLATION 15
Series Editors: Susan Bassnett (University of Warwick)
and Edwin Gentzler (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Behind Inverted Commas
Translation and Anglo-German Cultural Relations in the
Nineteenth Century
Susanne Stark
MULTILINGUAL MATTERS LTD
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For my father,
and in memory of my mother
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Stark, Susanne
'Behind Inverted Commas': Translation and Anglo-German Cultural Relations
in the
Nineteenth Century/Susanne Stark
Topics in Translation: 15
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. German languageTranslating into EnglishHistory19th century. 2.
Translating and interpretingGreat BritainHistory19th century. 3. German
literatureGreat BritainHistory19th century. 4. German literatureTranslations
into EnglishHistory and Criticism. 5. Great BritainRelationsGermany. 6.
GermanyRelationsGreat Britain. I. Title. II. Series.
PF3498.S73 1999
428'.0231'09034dc21 98-54224
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1
1 17
Some Nineteenth-Century Anglo-German Crosscurrents
2 31
Women and Translation in the Nineteenth Century
3
From Portrait-Painting to Daguerreotyping: Notions of
Fidelity in Nineteenth-Century Translation 64
4 96
Translators and Philology
5 118
Translating the Past
6 143
Translating the Foreign Gaze
Epilogue 174
Bibliography 177
Index 197
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Acknowledgements
This book would not have come to fruition without the support of many
people and institutions.
For the permission to quote from manuscript material I should like to thank
the Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; the Syndics of
Cambridge University Library; the Master and Fellows of Trinity College
Cambridge; the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland; the British
Library; the University College London Library; the archives of John Murray,
Publisher, London, as well as the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Most of my
research for this study was carried out during my time at Cambridge, and I
should like to acknowledge the generous support I received from Corpus
Christi College as well as the German Department. I am also grateful for the
assistance granted by St Hilda's College, Oxford, and the University of Leeds,
which has enabled me to complete this book.
Conferences and seminars at the Universities of Cambridge, Warwick,
Oxford, Liverpool, Sheffield and Birmingham have given me the opportunity
to present some of my ideas to searching audiences, and the valuable
feedback I received on all these occasions has been incorporated in the
chapters of this book. My paper on 'Women and Translation in the Nineteenth
Century', which helped me to develop the argument of Chapter 2, has been
published in New Comparison 15 (1993).
Conversations with friends and colleagues have contributed significantly to
my work in a variety of ways. Without William H. Brock's open-minded
guidance in interdisciplinary nineteenth-century studies I would not have
embarked on this project. I should also like to thank Seán Allan, Richard
Byrn, David Constantine, Christine Devine, Hernani Gutierre, Grazia Lolla,
Michael McCrum and Mark Pryce for their time, their expertise and the
various insights they have offered to share with me generously Gillian Beer
and Peter Skrine have commented thoughtfully and have given indispensable
advice for which I am extremely grateful. To Roger Paulin, I owe a great debt
of thanks
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for his encyclopaedic knowledge, invaluable experience and acute criticism of
my work as a supervisor, as well as for his unstinting encouragement
throughout this project. Finally, I should like to thank the series editor, Susan
Bassnett, for her patience, enthusiasm and stimulating suggestions which have
helped me greatly in preparing the final manuscript.
S.S.
