Translation and Polyglossia in Early Modern English Literature

Laetitia Sansonetti is Professor in Translation Studies at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France. Her research bears on the reception and translation of classical and continental texts in early modern England, language learning, lexicology and phonetics.

• Table of contentsPrefaceNote on spellingLIST OF FIGURES?Part 1 – Origins and meeting points: rhetoricChapter 1 – Exordium: language norms and literary licencesLanguages, literature, and pedagogyStylistic decorum: matching pairs and dialectical dyadsLicense to mix: a history of minglingLocating authority: visibility, agency, communicationChapter 2 – Babel and the barbarians: mixing or matchingBabbling Babel: confusion leading to divisionChurch Latin and Pedlar’s French: against mixingPentecost and strange tongues: a plea for translationBarbarous connections: rhetoric and religionPart 2 – The parallel model: didacticismChapter 3 – Learning French with Du Bartas: didactic uses of literature and literary approaches to didacticismA kingly apprentice and his imitators: “poeticall exercises”A kingly apprentice and his imitators: poetical and political alignmentAn English teacher of French and his rivals: directionality in language manualsAn English teacher of French and his rivals: “inimitable stile”Chapter 4 – Moral lessons and language lessonsWolfe’s trilingual Courtier: them and usA polyglot fanciulla?From Grisel y Mirabella to Aurelio and IsabellaGuicciardini’s Two Discourses, from sequential to parallel versionsPart 3 – The combinatory model: authorityChapter 5 – The translator’s polyglot visibility: Thomas Shelton’s translation of Don Quixote (1612, 1620)Authority “on the margent”: dealing with a polyglot source text through deletion and substitutionThe translator as lexicographer: shaping a polyglot target text with loanwords and loan translationThe annotator as cultural broker: sharing information between estrangement and naturalizationLiterary criticism from the margins: grudging faithfulness verging on censorshipChapter 6 – The polyglot polemicists of the Swetnam ControversyPolemic, polyphony, and polyglossia: Tudor precedentsClassical quotations and authorityTranslation and adaptationThe authority of vernacular polyglossiaPeroratio – Rhetoric, didacticism, and authorityRecombinationHow many models does it take to change a paradigm?Texts and peopleCirculationsIndex (to be compiled by the author)