Everybody's Book, Or Gleanings Serious and Entertaining

Everybody's Book, Or Gleanings Serious and Entertaining
Title Everybody's Book, Or Gleanings Serious and Entertaining PDF eBook
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Pages 724
Release 1860
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Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf

Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf
Title Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf PDF eBook
Author Alexander Bubb
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 291
Release 2023-03-30
Genre Books and reading
ISBN 0198866275

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The interest among Victorian readers in classical literature from Asia has been greatly underestimated. The popularity of the Arabian Nights and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is well documented. Yet this was also an era in which freethinkers consulted the Quran, in which schoolchildren were given abridgements of the Ramayana to read, in which names like 'Kalidasa' and 'Firdusi' were carved on the façades of public libraries, and in which women'sbook clubs discussed Japanese poetry. But for the most part, such readers were not consulting the specialist publications of scholarly orientalists. What then were the translations that catalysed these intercultural encounters? Based on a unique methodology marrying translation theory with empirical techniques developedby historians of reading, this book shines light for the first time on the numerous amateur translators or 'popularizers', who were responsible for making these texts accessible and disseminating them to the Victorian general readership.Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf explains the process whereby popular translations were written, published, distributed to bookshops and libraries, and ultimately consumed by readers. It uses the working papers and correspondence of popularizers to demonstrate their techniques and motivations, while the responses of contemporary readers are traced through the pencil marginalia they left behind in dozens of original copies. In spite of their typically limited knowledge ofsource-languages, Asian Classics argues that popularizers produced versions more respectful of the complexity, cultural difference, and fundamental untranslatability of Asian texts than the professional orientalists whose work they were often adapting. The responses of their readers, likewise, frequently deviatedfrom interpretive norms, and it is proposed that this combination of eccentric translators and unorthodox readers triggered 'flights of translation', whereby historical individuals can be seen to escape the hegemony of orientalist forms of knowledge.

The Athenaeum

The Athenaeum
Title The Athenaeum PDF eBook
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Pages 916
Release 1861
Genre England
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The Spectator

The Spectator
Title The Spectator PDF eBook
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Pages 1266
Release 1860
Genre English literature
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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

Notes on books

Notes on books
Title Notes on books PDF eBook
Author Longmans, Green and co
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Pages 822
Release 1860
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Notes on Books

Notes on Books
Title Notes on Books PDF eBook
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Pages 534
Release 1865
Genre Books
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Willis's Price Current. A Catalogue of Superior Second-hand Books, Ancient and Modern ... No. CLIV[-CLXXXVII.]

Willis's Price Current. A Catalogue of Superior Second-hand Books, Ancient and Modern ... No. CLIV[-CLXXXVII.]
Title Willis's Price Current. A Catalogue of Superior Second-hand Books, Ancient and Modern ... No. CLIV[-CLXXXVII.] PDF eBook
Author Willis and Sotheran
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Pages 686
Release 1860
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