Lesa Scholl, Translation, Authorship and the Victorian Professional Woman

Lesa Scholl’s Translation, Authorship and the Victorian Professional Woman develops the notion that translation provided a means for Victorian middle-class women to take part in and benefit from the general important shifts of power occurring during an era marked by internal and imperial evolutions...

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Publicado en:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cve,
Autor principal: Collins, Hélène
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lenguaje:Anglais
Publicado: Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens 2014
Acceso en línea:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumario:Lesa Scholl’s Translation, Authorship and the Victorian Professional Woman develops the notion that translation provided a means for Victorian middle-class women to take part in and benefit from the general important shifts of power occurring during an era marked by internal and imperial evolutions. The study focuses on Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Harriet Martineau, three female professional writers and ‘linguistic and cultural translators’ (7). Interestingly, Lesa Scholl shows how th...