Crossing Boundaries in Early Modern England

Crossing Boundaries in Early Modern England
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Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 9783643909671
ISBN-13 : 3643909675
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Book Synopsis Crossing Boundaries in Early Modern England by : Florian Kubsch

Download or read book Crossing Boundaries in Early Modern England written by Florian Kubsch and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2018 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1500 and 1700, eight very different English translations of Kempis's Imitatio were published in about 70 editions, crossing boundaries of language, confessional affiliation, and literary genre. This study explores the ways in which biblicism and inwardness, so typical of the Latin original work, are subject to creative transformations by the English translators. Thus, the translations reflect and even influence more general tendencies in the wider corpus of early modern English literature, for example in the works of George Herbert, John Bunyan, and early English Bible translations. Florian Kubsch worked as a researcher at the Department of English at the Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany.


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