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Project

Cultural Transfer and translation in Scottish Romantic Periodicals, 1817-1829

This project pursues a critical comparative analysis of the presence of cultural transfer and translation in two major Romantic periodicals that dominated the literary, cultural, scientific and economic debates in Britain during the first three decades of the 19th century: the Edinburgh Review (est. 1802) and Blackwood's Magazine (est. 1817). Responding to the relative neglect of the study of translation in Romantic (periodical) scholarship, the project analyses a clearly defined corpus of texts applying state-of-the-art methodologies of literary and translation studies, thus providing a critical and multifaceted view on the cross-cultural engagement of both periodicals in the period between 1817 and 1829 --and, by extension, of Romantic literary culture in general. Focusing on a largely neglected aspect of Romantic culture and charting new methodological territory, the project constitutes a timely and innovative intervention in current Romantic scholarship. The project builds on the increasing scholarly interest in the role played by periodicals in the knowledge economy of post-Enlightenment Britain. The research will also involve archival research at the University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with Dr. Tom Mole, Director of the Centre for the History of the Book (http://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/chb).
Date:1 Jan 2016 →  31 Dec 2019
Keywords:Cultural Transfer, translation, Scottish Romantic Periodicals, 1817, 1829
Disciplines:Linguistics