Annmarie Drury

Translation as Transformation in Victorian Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores how Victorian poetry and translation dynamically influenced one another in an age of empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9781107079243
• ISBN-10: 1107079241
• Artikelnr.: 42017240

Autorenporträt

Annmarie Drury is Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York. Many of her own poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Raritan, and the Western Humanities Review. She has also published translations of, and essays on, Swahili poetry. Her book Stray Truths: Selected Poems of Euphrase Kezilahabi (2015), offers translations of the Tanzanian writer's poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Victorian translations, poetic transformations
1. Discovering a Victorian culture of translation
2. Idylls of the King, the Mabinogion, and Tennyson's faithless melancholy
3. In poetry and translation, Browning's case for innovation
4. The Rubáiyát and its compass
5. The persistence of Victorian translation practice: William Hichens and the Swahili world
Epilogue: Victorian translators and 'the epoch of world literature'
Bibliography.