Translation as Transformation in Victorian Poetry (Cambridge by Annmarie Drury

By Annmarie Drury

Translation as Transformation in Victorian Poetry illuminates the dynamic mutual affects of poetic and translation cultures in Victorian Britain, drawing on new fabrics, archival and periodical, to bare the diversity of considering translation within the period. the implications are a brand new account of Victorian translation and clean readings either one of canonical poems (including these via Browning and Tennyson) and of non-canonical poems (including these via Michael Field). Revealing Victorian poets to be the most important brokers of intercultural negotiation in an period of empire, Annmarie Drury indicates why and the way meter concerns rather a lot to them, and locates the origins of translation experiences inside of Victorian conundrums. She explores what it capability to 'sound Victorian' in twentieth-century poetic translation, utilizing Swahili as a case examine, and demonstrates how and why it is smart to think about Victorian translation as global literature in action.

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