Multilingual Texts and Practices in Early Modern Europe

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Peter Auger (University of Birmingham, UK) Sheldon Brammall (University of Birmingham, UK)

Multilingual Texts and Practices in Early Modern Europe

Peter Auger (University of Birmingham, UK), Sheldon Brammall (University of Birmingham, UK)

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Routledge
09 February 2023

Sociolinguistics; Bilingualism & multilingualism; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

This collection offers a cross-disciplinary exploration of the ways in which multilingual practices were embedded in early modern European literary culture, opening up a dynamic dialogue between contemporary multilingual practices and scholarly work on early modern history and literature.

The nine chapters draw on translation studies, literary history, transnational literatures, and contemporary sociolinguistic research to explore how multilingual practices manifested themselves across different social, cultural and institutional spaces. The exploration of a diverse range of contexts allows for the opportunity to engage with questions around how individual practices shape national and transnational language practices and literatures, the impact of multilingual practices on identity formation, and their implications for creative innovations in bilingual and multilingual texts. Taken as a whole, the collection paves the way for future conversations on what early modern literary studies and present-day multilingualism research might learn from one another and the extent to which historical texts might supply precedents for contemporary multilingual practices.

This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, early modern studies in history and literature, and comparative literature.

Edited by: Peter Auger (University of Birmingham UK), Sheldon Brammall (University of Birmingham, UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 562g
ISBN: 9780367555733
ISBN 10: 0367555735
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 09 February 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Table of Contents Notes on Contributors Foreword Jan Bloemendal Preface Peter Auger and Sheldon Brammall ‘Introduction: Historical Ethnography of Multilingual Texts and Practices’ Peter Auger Part I: Producing and Using Multilingual Texts Introduction Peter Auger and Sheldon Brammall ‘From Multilingual to Multimodal: Educational French-Dutch Translation in Early Modern Times’ Alisa van de Haar ‘Multilingualism as Cultural Capital: Women and Translation at the German Courts’ Hilary Brown ‘The ""Berlaimonts"": Europe on a Page? Seeking Cultural and Linguistic Common Ground in Early Modern Europe’ Susan Baddeley ‘Why Print in Two Languages? Bilingual French-Spanish Books: Teaching, Commerce, and Diplomacy in Early Seventeenth-Century France’ Aurore Schoenecker Part II: Multilingual and Monolingual Literatures Introduction Peter Auger and Sheldon Brammall ‘Collaborative Translation as a Model for Multilingual Printing in Early Renaissance Editions of Aesop’s Fables’ Belén Bistué ‘Fixity and Fluidity in Pietro Bembo’s Prose della volgar lingua’ Sheldon Brammall ‘Adventures in Early Modern Multilingualism: ""Exceptional"" England?’ Anne Coldiron Afterword Mark Sebba"

Peter Auger is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Birmingham. His research examines sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English and Scottish literature in relation to other languages and literatures, especially French. He is the author of Du Bartas’ Legacy in England and Scotland (2019). Shorter publications have addressed topics including literary reception, translation and imitation practices, language learning, and cultural diplomacy. Sheldon Brammall is Associate Professor in Early Modern Literature at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of The English Aeneid: Translations of Virgil, 1555–1646 (2015) and is currently completing a monograph on the reception of the Appendix Vergiliana in Renaissance Europe.