Christian Felix Weiße the translator : cultural transfer and literary entrepreneurship in the Enlightenment / Tom Zille

Englisch, Deutsch (Sprache des Originals: Englisch)

London : Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London [2021], 2021

xiii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

In English; some passages in German with English translation

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-215) and index

Rezensiert in: Schabert, Ina *1940-*: [Rezension von: Zille, Tom, Christian Felix Weiße the translator], 2022

Rezensiert in: Genton, François *1955-*: [Rezension von: Zille, Tom, Christian Felix Weiße the translator], 2022

Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Tom Zille, Christian Felix Weiße the Translator], 2023

Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Zille, Tom, Christian Felix Weiße the translator], 2023

Rezensiert in: Bachleitner, Norbert *1954-*: [Rezension von: Zille, Tom, Christian Felix Weiße the translator], 2024

978-0-85457-273-1 paperback

0-85457-273-2 paperback

*Literatur / Übersetzung / Weiße, Christian Felix *1726-1804* / Kulturvermittlung

*Weisse, Christian Felix -- 1726-1804 ; Translators -- Germany -- History -- 18th century ; Translating and interpreting -- Germany -- History -- 18th century ; Authors, German -- 18th century -- Biography

*Weisse, Christian Felix ; Translating and interpreting ; Translators ; Germany ; History

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: PT2554.W2

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 418.02092

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: NN 5110: N Geschichte / NN Neuere Geschichte / Kulturgeschichte

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: NZ 15060: N Geschichte / NZ Regionale Landeskunde / Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: GI 1431: G Germanistik. Niederlandistik. Skandinavistik / GE 3003-GT 1500 Deutsche Literatur / Darstellungen unter besonderen Gesichtspunkten

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: GI 8854: G Germanistik. Niederlandistik. Skandinavistik / GE 3003-GT 1500 Deutsche Literatur / Sekundärliteratur

Christian Felix Weiße (1726–1804) is best known as a dramatist and an influential children’s writer of the Enlightenment period. This volume is the first book to explore his singularly extensive output as a literary translator. Tom Zille investigates the conditions which allowed Weiße to become the most prolific German translator of English literature in the eighteenth century, a popular translator of French drama, and an influential editor and “entrepreneur” of the translations of others. Drawing on previously unpublished correspondence, the study examines Weiße’s wide-ranging professional networks as a cultural mediator of European significance. Special attention is paid to his role in the German reception of the Ossian cycle of poems, his introduction of English children’s literature to Germany, his translations of popular prose, and the intersections between his original writing and translations.

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