Description
Thomas De Quincey's multivalent engagement with Romantic translation Offers new perspectives on De Quincey's most celebrated essays, his style and politics, and his famously fraught interactions with Coleridge, Wordsworth, Carlyle, Kant, and others Traces how De Quincey harnessed translation to reconfigure British Romanticism and open it towards European Romanticisms Combines insights from translation studies, critical theory, and Romantic studies in order to establish a novel method for reading Romantic writing This 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.
About the Author
Brecht de Groote is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, within the Research Group on Translation and Culture, at the University of Ghent. He previously held the Susan Manning Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities of the University of Edinburgh, as well as (post)doctoral research positions in the English Department at the University of Leuven. His research situates British Romanticism in its broad European context by studying translation, media and late style.
Reviews
"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.?" -Diego Saglia, University of Parma
Book Information
ISBN 9781474483902
Author Brecht de Groote
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
About the Author
Brecht de Groote is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, within the Research Group on Translation and Culture, at the University of Ghent. He previously held the Susan Manning Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities of the University of Edinburgh, as well as (post)doctoral research positions in the English Department at the University of Leuven. His research situates British Romanticism in its broad European context by studying translation, media and late style.
Reviews
"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.?" -Diego Saglia, University of Parma
Book Information
ISBN 9781474483902
Author Brecht de Groote
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
