The Works of Lucy Hutchinson

Volume I: The Translation of Lucretius

Reid Barbour, David Norbrook (Herausgeber)

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960 Seiten

2011
Oxford University Press
9780199247363 (ISBN)

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Volume I in a four-volume edition of the writings of Lucy Hutchinson, which have never before been published in a collected edition. Hutchinson's translation of Lucretius's classical epic De rerum natura is provided alongside the Latin text she used. The detailed commentary and full introduction illuminate the translation and its contexts.

This is the first volume in the four-volume edition of The Works of Lucy Hutchinson, the first-ever collected edition of the writings of the pioneering author and translator. Hutchinson (1620-81) had a remarkable range of her interests, from Latin poetry to Civil War politics and theology. This edition of her translation of Lucretius's De rerum natura offers new biographical material, demonstrating the changes and unexpected continuities in Hutchinson's life between the work's composition in the 1650s and its dedication in 1675. Hers is the first complete surviving English translation of one of the great philosophical poems , a challenging text at the borderlines of poetry and philosophy. For the first time, the Lucretius translation is made available alongside the Latin text Hutchinson used, which differs in innumerable ways from versions known today. The commentary provides multiple ways into further understanding of the translation and its contexts. Written at a momentous period in political and literary history, Hutchinson's Lucretius throws light on the complex transition between 'ancient' and 'modern' conceptions of the classical canon and of natural philosophy. It offers a case study in the history of reading, and more specifically of reading by a woman. Through close comparison with three contemporary translations, this edition situates Hutchinson's version in the context of the shifting poetic languages of the seventeenth century, and facilitates an approach to Lucretius' often rebarbative Latin. It further demonstrates the remarkable ways in which Hutchinson's engagement with this 'atheistical' poem leaves deep traces on her later, militantly Calvinist prose and verse.

Reid Barbour is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published widely in the field of early modern studies, including books on classical reception, religion, prose fiction, and John Selden. He is the editor of Studies in Philology. David Norbrook has taught at Magdalen College, Oxford and the University of Maryland and is currently Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford. He has published widely on Renaissance literature and history.

PART I ; Dedication ; Acknowledgements and permissions ; List of illustrations ; Abbreviations and conventions ; Introduction ; Lucretius, De rerum natura: the Latin text, books 1-6 ; Hutchinson's Lucretius, books 1-6 ; PART II ; Commentary ; Bibliography and Abbreviations List ; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.12.2011
Reihe/Serie	OET: Works of Lucy Hutchinson
Zusatzinfo	9 black-and-white halftones
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 224 mm
Gewicht	1424 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9780199247363 / 9780199247363
Zustand	Neuware