Faithful Translators : Authorship, Gender, and Religion in Early Modern England / Jaime Goodrich.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Rethinking the early modern | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type:
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  • 9780810167384
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Religious translation in Early Modern England -- Private spheres : Margaret Roper, Mary Basset, and Catholic identity -- Royal propaganda : Mary Tudor, Elizabeth Tudor, and the Edwardian Reformation -- Princely counsel : Mary Sidney Herbert, Elizabeth I, and international Protestantism -- Anonymous representatives : Mary Percy, Potentiana Deacon, and monastic spirituality -- Authority and authorship in Early Modern England.
Summary: With Faithful Translators Jaime Goodrich offers the first in-depth examination of women's devotional translations and of religious translations in general within early modern England. Placing female translators such as Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, alongside their male counterparts, such as Sir Thomas More and Sir Philip Sidney, Goodrich argues that both male and female translators constructed authorial poses that allowed their works to serve four distinct cultural functions: creating privacy, spreading propaganda, providing counsel, and representing religious groups. Ultimately, Faithful Translators calls for a reconsideration of the apparent simplicity of "faithful" translations and aims to reconfigure perceptions of early modern authorship, translation, and women writers.
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Based on the author's thesis (PhD)--Boston College, 2008.

Religious translation in Early Modern England -- Private spheres : Margaret Roper, Mary Basset, and Catholic identity -- Royal propaganda : Mary Tudor, Elizabeth Tudor, and the Edwardian Reformation -- Princely counsel : Mary Sidney Herbert, Elizabeth I, and international Protestantism -- Anonymous representatives : Mary Percy, Potentiana Deacon, and monastic spirituality -- Authority and authorship in Early Modern England.

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With Faithful Translators Jaime Goodrich offers the first in-depth examination of women's devotional translations and of religious translations in general within early modern England. Placing female translators such as Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, alongside their male counterparts, such as Sir Thomas More and Sir Philip Sidney, Goodrich argues that both male and female translators constructed authorial poses that allowed their works to serve four distinct cultural functions: creating privacy, spreading propaganda, providing counsel, and representing religious groups. Ultimately, Faithful Translators calls for a reconsideration of the apparent simplicity of "faithful" translations and aims to reconfigure perceptions of early modern authorship, translation, and women writers.

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