02240    a2200253   4500001001100000005001700011008003900028020001800067037003600085040000700121041000800128072001500136072001300151072002100164072002100185072002500206100001900231245010800250250000600358260003200364300001000396520156500406999001501971190065053320250317100419.0250312042002GB                   eng    a9781900650533  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 41.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aCFP2thema7 aCFP2bic7 aLAN0000002bisac7 aLAN0090002bisac7 a828.6080992872bisac1 aMirella Agorni10aTranslating Italy for the Eighteenth CenturybBritish Women, Translation and Travel Writing (1739-1797)  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20020901  a178 p  bTranslating Italy in the Eighteenth Century offers a historical analysis of the role played by translation in that complex redefinition of women's writing that was taking place in Britain in the second half of the eighteenth century. It investigates the ways in which women writers managed to appropriate images of Italy and adapt them to their own purposes in a period which covers the 'moral turn' in women's writing in the 1740s and foreshadows the Romantic interest in Italy at the end of the century. A brief survey of translations produced by women in the period 1730-1799 provides an overview of the genres favoured by women translators, such as the moral novel, sentimental play and a type of conduct literature of a distinctively 'proto-feminist' character. Elizabeth Carter's translation of Francesco Algarotti's II Newtonianesimo per le Dame (1739) is one of the best examples of the latter kind of texts. A close reading of the English translation indicates a 'proto-feminist' exploitation of the myth of Italian women's cultural prestige. Another genre increasingly accessible to women, namely travel writing, confirms this female interest in Italy. Female travellers who visited Italy in the second half of the century, such as Hester Piozzi, observed the state of women's education through the lenses provided by Carter. Piozzi's image of Italy, a paradoxical mixture of imagination and realistic observation, became a powerful symbolic source, which enabled the fictional image of a modern, relatively egalitarian British society to take shape.  c3202d3202