Nature Translated : Alexander Von Humboldt's Works in Nineteenth-Century Britain / Alison E. Martin.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: Edinburgh critical studies in literary translationPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.Description: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781474439343
- 1474439349
- 9781474453844
- 1474453848
- Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859
- Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859
- Natural history -- Great Britain -- History
- Scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Naturalists -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Sciences naturelles -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
- Naturalistes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies
- SCIENCE -- History
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric
- Natural history
- Naturalists
- Scientists
- Great Britain
- 509.2 23
- Q143.H9
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Intro; Nature Translated; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Series Editors' Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Styling Science; 2 Dispute and Dissociation: John Black's Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain (1811); 3 'A Colossal Literary and Scientific Task': Helen Maria Williams and the Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent (1814-1829); 4 'A Plain and Unassuming Style': Thomasina Ross and Humboldt's Travels (1852-1853); 5 The Poetry of Geography: The Ansichten der Natur in English Translation.
6 Cosmos: The Universe TranslatedConclusions; Bibliography; Index.
This book shows how Alexander von Humboldt's British translators, now largely forgotten figures, were pivotal in moulding his prose and his public persona as they reconfigured his works for readers in Britain and beyond.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
German to English.
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