Thresholds of Translation

337 Pages·2018·7.187 MB·English

by  Marie-Alice Belle, Brenda M. Hosington

THRESHOLDS OF TRANSLATION
Paratexts, Print, and Cultural Exchange in Early
Modern Britain (1473–1660)
Edited by
Marie-Alice Belle and Brenda M. Hosington
EARLY MODERN LITERATURE IN HISTORY
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Early Modern Literature in History
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Marie-Alice Belle • Brenda M. Hosington
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Thresholds of
Translation
Paratexts, Print, and Cultural Exchange in Early
Modern Britain (1473–1660)
Editors
Marie-Alice Belle Brenda M. Hosington
Université de Montréal Université de Montréal and University
Montréal, QC, Canada of Warwick
Coventry, UK
Early Modern Literature in History
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A
cknowledgements
This collection of essays is the result in part of the activities of the research
project, ‘Translation and the Making of Early Modern English Print
Culture (1473–1660)’, co-directed by Marie-Alice Belle and Brenda
M. Hosington at the Université de Montréal. The project was generously
funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada/Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines du Canada, to whom
we wish to express our gratitude.
Two scholarly organisations afforded us space at conferences in which
to explore the combined significance of paratexts and translations in early
modern print culture. We held two panels on this topic at the annual
meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Berlin in 2015, followed
by another panel the following year in Boston. The Society for the History
of Authorship, Reading and Publishing also hosted a series of panels on
translation, paratext, and print at its annual conferences in Montreal in
2015 and in Paris in 2016. We should like to thank all who participated as
speakers, chairs, and commentators in the exchange of ideas that took
place at these conferences and that lies at the heart of the present volume:
Guyda Armstrong, Sara Barker, Joyce Boro, Warren Boutcher, Hélène
Cazes, Anne Coldiron, Line Cottegnies, Patricia Demers, Giovanni
Iamartino, Alessandra Manzi, Howard Norland, Alessandra Petrina,
Gabriela Schmidt, and Louise Wilson.
We were also able to host two workshops, in 2014 and 2015, in the
Département de Linguistique et Traduction at the Université de Montréal,
the second of which focused on translation and paratexts. Again, we are
grateful to the participants who presented papers at the roundtable, Joyce
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Boro, Warren Boutcher, Anne Coldiron, and Helen Smith, and to all
those who engaged in the very lively ensuing discussion.
It would be seriously remiss of us not to thank our research assistants
on the project, all graduate students at the Université de Montréal. Isabelle
Aouad, Marie-France Guénette, Daniel Lévy, Faustine Richalet, and Olga
Stepanova have all contributed to the creation of our catalogue, ‘Cultural
Crosscurrents in Stuart and Commonwealth Britain: An Online Catalogue
of Printed Translations (1641–1660)’. An important part of their contri-
bution has been the identification and description of the paratexts accom-
panying the translations. Isabelle, Daniel, and Olga also participated in the
workshops by presenting papers.
With regard to the catalogue, we should also like to thank the Folger
Library, whose own catalogue was made available to us; it has proved a
valuable aid. The cooperation of the Huntington Library in providing
reproductions of illustrations, especially at a late moment of impending
panic, has also been greatly appreciated.
Finally, we would like to thank the General Editors of the Early Modern
Literature in History Series, Cedric Brown and Andrew Hadfield, for their
interest in the subject of translation and book history and their faith in our
ability to carry this book project through. Our gratitude, too, goes to our
editors, Ben Doyle and Camille Davies, who have efficiently, patiently, and
uncomplainingly assisted us in producing this volume.
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ontents
1 I ntroduction 1
Marie-Alice Belle and Brenda M. Hosington
Part I Fashioning Translation: Textual, Material,
and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Books 25
2 Matter in the Margins 27
Helen Smith
3 The Translator’s Visibility in Early Printed Portrait-
Images and the Ambiguous Example of Margaret
More Roper 51
A. E. B. Coldiron
4 Textual Standard-Bearers: Translated Titles and Early
Modern English Print 75
Brenda M. Hosington
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5 Spain in Translation: Peritextual Representations
of Cultural Difference, 1614–1625 101
Joyce Boro
Part II Translation and the Cultural Uses of Paratexts:
Six Case Studies 137
6 Knights, Schoolmasters, and ‘Lusty Ladies White’:
Addressing Readers in the Paratexts of Gavin Douglas’s
Fourth Book of Eneados (1513–1553) 139
Marie-Alice Belle
7 Approaching Petrarch’s Trionfi: Paratexts in the Early
Modern Scottish Translations 161
Alessandra Petrina
8 Marketing Utopia: The Protean Paratexts in Ralph
Robinson’s English Translation 183
Gabriela Schmidt
9 Mirrors for Princes: Paratexts and Political Stance
in Henry Carey’s Translations of Romulo and Il
Tarquinio Superbo by Virgilio Malvezzi 207
Giovanni Iamartino and Alessandra Manzi
10 The Paratexts to Ben Jonson’s Translation of Horace’s
Ars poetica (1640): A Contemporary Reading of Jonson’s
Poetics 229
Line Cottegnies
11 Translation and the English Book Trade c.1640–1660:
The Cases of Humphrey Moseley and William London 251
Warren Boutcher
Bibliography 279
Index 313
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Marie-Alice Belle is Associate Professor in Translation Studies at the
Université de Montréal. Her research addresses the social and material
aspects of translation (with particular attention to translated Classics and
their paratexts) in early modern Britain. Publications include a guest-
edited special issue of Renaissance and Reformation on Women’s
Translations in Early Modern England and France (2012), and a critical
edition (with Line Cottegnies) of Mary Sidney’s Antonius and Thomas
Kyd’s Cornelia (2017).
Joyce Boro is Professor of English, in Études anglaises at the Université
de Montréal. A specialist in medieval and Renaissance literature, focusing
on romance and Anglo-Spanish relations, she has edited Bourchier’s
Castell of Love (Tempe, AZ: MRTS, 2007) and Tyler’s Mirrour of Princely
Deeds (London: MHRA, 2012). She has also published on multilingual
texts and on translation and print.
Warren Boutcher is Professor of Renaissance Studies, Department of
English, Queen Mary, University of London. He has published widely on
Renaissance literary and intellectual history and is particularly interested in
early modern translation and book history, as well as transnational
Renaissance literatures. His latest publication is The School of Montaigne in
Early Modern Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).
A. E. B. Coldiron is Berry Chair in English literature at the University
of St Andrews. She is a specialist in late medieval and Renaissance English
literature, with articles on Chaucer, Spenser, and Sidney, amongst others,
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