Thomas De Quincey, Dark Interpreter

Romanticism in Translation

AvBrecht de Groote

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Thomas De Quincey's multivalent engagement with Romantic translationOffers new perspectives on De Quincey's most celebrated essays, his style and politics, and his famously fraught interactions with Coleridge, Wordsworth, Carlyle, Kant, and othersTraces how De Quincey harnessed translation to reconfigure British Romanticism and open it towards European RomanticismsCombines insights from translation studies, critical theory, and Romantic studies in order to establish a novel method for reading Romantic writingThis book investigates how De Quincey's writing was shaped by his work as a translator. Drawing on a wide range of materials and readings, it traces how De Quincey employed structures of interlinguistic and interdiscursive exchange to reimagine Romanticism. The book examines how his theories and practices of translation served to position his oeuvre, define his style, frame his philosophy and reinvent the meaning of literary creativity. Brecht de Groote traces in particular the ways in which De Quincey used translation to locate British Romanticism in its European context. In shedding new light on De Quincey, de Groote models a new translation-centric approach to the study of Romanticism.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-02-06
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:328 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474483902

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Brecht de Groote is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the University of Ghent, Belgium. His research focuses on the Romantic period, extending into the eighteenth century and Victorian period; in particular, he is interested in the legacies of late-Romantic writing (1820s through early 1850s). Combining methods at the intersection of translation studies, media theory and literary theory, he investigates the ways in which British culture is shaped by ideas of translation and mediation, particularly as it engaged with France and Germany. Brecht previously held (post)doctoral positions at the Universities of Ghent, Leuven and Edinburgh. He has a monograph with Edinburgh University Press, Thomas De Quincey: Romanticism in Translation, and his work has appeared in Studies in Romanticism, Romanticism and the European Romantic Review, amongst other venues. He is currently working on a project on Romantic (pseudo-)translation and deception.

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This passionately argued and engagingly written book opens up new vistas onto De Quincey’s ways of reading and writing ‘as an interpreter’. Reappraising De Quincey's cosmopolitan, multilingual profile, De Groote locates him convincingly　- and fascinatingly -　at the centre of Romantic-period cross-cultural dialogues and intersections.

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AcknowledgmentsDe Quincey and Translation: A TimelineIntroduction: Dark Interpreter1. [I] Wrote This: Authorship, Translatorship2. How to Write English: The Transnationalism of a National Style3. Translating (against) Kant: A Translator’s Idealism4. The Ghost of Cutler’s Stockings: The Idea of TranslationCoda: A Yearning for TranslationBibliographyAbbreviationsIndex