Found through Translation: Female Translators and the Construction of ‘Relational Authority’ in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic

Found through Translation: Female Translators and the Construction of ‘Relational Authority’ in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic

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‘It is a pity that not someone like Christina Leonora de Neufville found the time to take on that work’, translator and author Elizabeth Wolff stated when she set eyes on one of the Dutch translations of Voltaire’s Mahomet (1741) in October 1770. Wolff’s comments on these translations provide fascin...

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Main Authors: Lieke van Deinsen, Beatrijs Vanacker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: openjournals.nl 2019-06-01
Series:Early Modern Low Countries
Subjects:
Dutch women writers
relational authority
translation
self-representation
authorship construction
Online Access:https://test.openjournals.nl/emlc/article/view/7217

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