Cultural Transfer through Translation

Stefanie Stockhorst: Introduction. Cultural transfer through translation: a current perspective in Enlightenment studies Translation and transfer in theoretical discourse Avi S. Lifschitz: Translation in theory and practice: the case of Johann David Michaelis's prize essay on language and opinions (1759) Christina Oberstebrink: Plagiarism and originality in painting: Joshua Reynolds's concept of imitation and Enlightenment translation theory Individual texts and their cultural impact through translation Monika Baar: From general history to national history: the transformations of William Guthrie's and John Gray's A General History of the World (1736-1765) in Continental Europe Saskia S. Wiedner: Melchiorre Cesarotti Il Fanatismo ossia Maometto profeta: tragedia di Voltaire (1742) - la traduction italienne de la tragedie voltairienne Le Fanatisme ou Mahomet le prophete (1741) Astrid Krake: 'Translating to the moment' - marketing and Anglomania: the first German translation of Richardson's Clarissa (1747/1748) Andreas Dittrich: Traduire la pensee utopique: le transfert des paradigmes de L'An 2440 et Der goldne Spiegel Barry Murnane: Uncanny translations, uncanny productivity: Walpole, Schiller and Kahlert John R. J. Eyck: Where Werther went: what happens when a 'minor' literature transposes a 'major' character The dissemination of genres and ideas as cultural transfer Pierre Degott: Early English translations of Italian opera (1711-1750) Andreas Onnerfors: Translating discourses of the Enlightenment: transcultural language skills and cross-references in Swedish and German eighteenth-century learned journals Huib J. Zuidervaart: Science for the public: the translation of popular texts on experimental philosophy into the Dutch language in mid-eighteenth century John Stone: Translated sociabilities of print in eighteenth-century Spain Mladen Kozul: D'Holbach et les deistes anglais: la construction des 'lumieres radicales' a la fin des annees 1760 Alison E. Martin: Paeans to progress: Arthur Young's travel accounts in German translation Fania Oz-Salzberger: Did Adam Ferguson inspire Friedrich Schiller's philosophy of play? An exercise in tracking the itinerary of an idea Biographical notes