Description: A fresh perspective on women translators in the early modern period, with particular focus on the relatively underexplored culture of translation in Germany.
Review Quotes: "Hilary Brown presents a wide-ranging and scrupulously scholarly study of women translators in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. [...] Brown has produced an exemplary and meticulous study that is judicious in its analysis. It is essential and stimulating reading for scholars and students of translation studies and early modern studies alike." -- Joanna Raisbeck, Modern Language Review
"Hilary Brown's illuminating Women & Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond the Female Tradition [is a] groundbreaking scholarly study [which] will prompt not only a reassessment of her titular focus, but of the history of translation as well." -- Gregary J. Racz, Translation Review"Hilary Brown's study, Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation: Beyond the Female Tradition, has certainly earned the moniker of being a groundbreaking study. [...] The book presents a polemical discussion on the relevance and accuracy of using gender as a key factor in examining early modern female translators [...] Brown's perspective is [â] innovative and thought-provoking." -- Margarita Savchenkova, Translation and Interpreting Studies"[Hilary Brown's] brilliant monograph [...] offers the first comprehensive overview of all known women translators in the sixteenth-and seventeenth-century German-speaking states. [...] By combining new work on historical sources with critical perspectives from the discipline of translation studies, Hilary Brown rewrites the history of early modern women translators. [...] Brown's bold study invites us to approach the history of translation in the twenty-first century in a more multi-faceted, inclusive way." -- Regina Toepfer, Arbitrium