A Language Not One's Own
Translational Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen's Iberian Recipes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9320141 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Madeline Bassnett (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-27 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1531-0485 • E-ISSN: 1553-3786 |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jem.2019.0010 |
| OpenAlex | W3003572623 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
This essay examines collections of recipes from Spain and Portugal in three seventeenth-century manuscript recipe books owned and attributed to Ann Fanshawe (Wellcome MS 7113); Mary Granville and Anne Granville D'Ewes (Folger MS V.a.430); and Sarah Hughes (Wellcome MS 363). Drawing on theories of translation and of the paratext, this essay argues that these recipes, which are often recorded in their language of origin, contain foreign terminology or references, or paradoxically inscribe their provenance through translation, actively positioning themselves as transcultural and transnational communications. In resisting assimilationist practices of translation, these recipes give us a household counter-narrative of amity between countries that were often antagonistic. In turn, they position the female owners of these books as "go-between" translators of cultural practices and epistemologies with the power to use, circulate, and pass down this manuscript knowledge, thus exemplifying the informal networks of hospitable exchange, friendship, and alliance that exist beyond the bounds of official state politics
Alliance · Art · Diplomacy · Friendship · Invective · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Paratext · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Terminology · Classics · Culinary Culture and Tourism · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices
Imperial Eyes
Science and the Secrets of Nature
Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts, 1550–1650
Cultural Translation in Early Modern Europe
Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture
Early Modern Cultures of Translation
Recipes for Thought
Alien Albion
Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare’s England
Thinking with things
All the ceremonyes and civilityes’
The Italian London of John North
Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity
How to Make a National Cuisine
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |