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Project

‘THE RECEPTION AND TRANSLATION OF FOREIGN CULTURES IN BRITISH ROMANTIC PERIODICALS, 1802-1817.’

This project pursues a quantitative, critical and comparative analysis of the reception and translation of non-British cultures in two major British Romantic periodicals that dominated the literary, cultural, scientific and economic debates in Britain during the first two decades of the 19th century: the Edinburgh Review (est. 1802) and the Quarterly Review (est. 1809). Key questions that will be addressed are: what is the position of foreign texts/cultures in both quarterlies, to what extent are they indicative of a transcultural function and orientation of the periodicals, and how are they integrated in the larger ideological strategies of both periodicals? Addressing a largely neglected dimension of British Romantic periodical culture, the project combines methodological insights from reception studies, periodical studies, sociology of literature and discourse analysis, and cultural transfer and translation studies.
Date:1 Oct 2017 →  30 Sep 2021
Keywords:British Romanticism, Reception Studies, Translation Studies
Disciplines:Language studies, Literary studies