Travel Narratives in Translation, 1750-1830

Alison E. Martin is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. Susan Pickford is Senior Lecturer in French to English translation at University of Paris 13, France.

Introduction Alison E. Martin and Susan Pickford Part I: Translation, Identity, and Ideology 1. The Travels and Translations of Marc-Antoine Eidous, Encyclopedic Mediator of Enlightenment Texts Clorinda Donato 2. Autopsy, Translation, and Editing in the Production of Johann Jacob Volkmann’s Historisch-Kritische Nachrichten von Italien (1770-71) Jeff Morrison 3. Translating Helvetica: Travel Writing, Intertext and Image Anthony Ozturk 4. Translation, Rewriting, Adaptation: The Itinéraire descriptif de l'Espagne by Alexandre de Laborde Inmaculada Tamarit Valles Part II: Extra-European Travel Writing and Translation 5. Translating the Great Maritime Explorations: On John Reinhold Forster’s Translation of Bougainville’s Voyage autour du monde Vladimir Kapor 6. Translating the Pacific: Georg Forster’s A Voyage round the World/Reise um die Welt (1777-1780) Carl Niekerk 7. The Travel Writer as Translator: The Case of Friedrich Ludwig Langstedt (1750-1804) Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi Part III: Women in Translation 8. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Letters in France: Between Ideological Turn and Women’s Writing Rachele Raus 9. A Treasure-Hunt in Europe at War, or "a passage in the history of a heart"?: The Translation of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Short Residence in Sweden into Portuguese Maria de Deus Duarte 10. Writing with "manly vigour": Translatorial Agency in Two Early-nineteenth-century English Translations of François Pouqueville’s Voyage en Morée, à Constantinople et en Albanie (1805) Susan Pickford Contributors Index