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Subject(s)

• Gottsched, Louise Adelgunde Victorie 1713-1762—Knowledge—Language and languages [Browse]
• Translators—Germany [Browse]
• Translating and interpreting—Germany—History—18th century [Browse]
• Books and reading—Germany—History—18th century [Browse]
• English language—Translating into German [Browse]
• Enlightenment—Germany [Browse]
• Germany—Intellectual life—18th century [Browse]

Series

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture [More in this series]

Summary note

Critics have paid increasing attention to the oeuvre of Luise Gottsched (1713-62), Germany's first prominent woman of letters, but have neglected her lifelong work of translation: an extraordinary range of works from drama and poetry to philosophy, history, archaeology, even theoretical physics. This first overview of Gottsched's translations places them in the context of eighteenth-century intellectual, literary, and cultural history, showing that they were part of an ambitious program undertaken with her famous husband to shape German culture during the Enlightenment.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Print version record.

ISBN

• 1571135103
• 9781571135100

Other standard number

• 9786613772107

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