· 2015
Printers without Borders: Translation and Textuality in the Renaissance
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- 2015year
Short summary
Printing and translation fundamentally reshaped English literary culture in the Renaissance by integrating foreign, particularly French, materials.
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Key points
- Printing and translation were central to the transformation of English literary culture during the Renaissance.
- Foreign, particularly French, language materials formed a foundational element of this literary shift.
- The study analyzes a range of texts, including early printed translations, 'Book of the Courtier' editions, multilingual poetry, and a royal Armada broadside.
- It offers a new framework for literary history that considers printing and translation as co-transformative processes, moving beyond traditional source-influence models.
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Abstract
This innovative study shows how printing and translation transformed English literary culture in the Renaissance. Focusing on the century after Caxton brought the press to England in 1476, Coldiron illustrates the foundational place of foreign, especially French language, materials. The book reveals unexpected foreign connections between works as different as Caxton's first printed translations, several editions of Book of the Courtier, sixteenth-century multilingual poetry, and a royal Armada broadside. Demonstrating a new way of writing literary history beyond source-influence models, the author treats the patterns and processes of translation and printing as co-transformations. This provocative book will interest scholars and advanced students of book history, translation studies, comparative literature and Renaissance literature
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