Travels and Translations in the Sixteenth Century: Selected Papers from the Second International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (2000)

This volume makes a very particular contribution to current thinking on Anglo-continental literary relations in the sixteenth century. Maintaining a breadth and balance of concerns and approaches, Travels and Translations in the Sixteenth Century represents the academic throughout Europe: essays are contributed by scholars working in Hungary, Greece, Italy, and France, as well as in the UK. Arthur Kinney's introduction to the collection provides a North American overview of what is perhaps a uniquely comprehensive index to contemporary European criticism and scholarship in the area of early modern travel and translation.The essays collected here address the full range of traditional and contemporary issues, providing new light on canonical authors from More to Shakespeare, and also directing critical attention to many unfamiliar texts which need to be better known for our fuller understanding of sixteenth-century English literature.

Amina Alyal is currently senior lecturer in English at Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds Georgia E. Brown is interested in sixteenth-century literature and she has published articles on Christopher Marlowe, Renaissance historiography, the epyllion, Elizabeth I's translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, and Shakespeare Elizabeth Heale teaches in the English Department at the University of Reading Arthur F. Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History and Director of the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Efterpi Mitsi is a lecturer in English literature and culture at the University of Athens Massimiliano Morini is currently a doctoral student at the University of Florence Melanie Ord teaches English literature at the University of the West of England Mike Pincombe is Reader in Tudor Literature at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne Mark Robson is Lecturer in English at the University of Nottingham Roy Rosenstein is Professor of Comparative Literature at The American University of Paris Cathy Shrank is a lecturer in Renaissance literature at the University of Aberdeen and is also attached to the Centre for Early Modern Studies at that university Benedek Peter Tota was born in Hungary in 1958. He studied languages and literature at the Benedictine Secondary Boarding School, Pannonhalma. He also studied theology at the College of Theology, Pannonhalma. He went to Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest, where he studied Hungarian language and literature and English language and literature