Romantic Literature and the Colonised World: Lessons from Indigenous Translations (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)

This book considers indigenous-language translations of Romantic texts in the British colonies. It argues that these translations uncover a latent discourse around colonisation in the original English texts. Focusing on poems by William Wordsworth, John Keats, Felicia Hemans, and Robert Burns, and on Walter Scott’s __Ivanhoe__, it provides the first scholarly insight into the reception of major Romantic authors in indigenous languages, and makes a major contribution to the study of global Romanticism and its colonial heritage. The book demonstrates the ways in which colonial controversies around prayer, song, hospitality, naming, mapping, architecture, and medicine are drawn out by translators to make connections between Romantic literature, its preoccupations, and debates in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century colonial worlds. Annotation This text considers indigenous-language translations of Romantic texts in the British colonies. It argues that these translations uncover a latent discourse around colonisation in the original English texts. Focusing on poems by William Wordsworth, John Keats, Felicia Hemans, and Robert Burns, and on Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, it provides the first scholarly insight into the reception of major Romantic authors in indigenous languages, and makes a major contribution to the study of global Romanticism and its colonial heritage. The book demonstrates the ways in which colonial controversies around prayer, song, hospitality, naming, mapping, architecture, and medicine are drawn out by translators to make connections between Romantic literature, its preoccupations, and debates in the 19th- and early 20th-century colonial worlds Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Introduction (Nikki Hessell)....Pages 1-23 Praying: Felicia Hemans at Third Sight (Nikki Hessell)....Pages 25-53 Singing: Global Indigeneity and Robert Burns (Nikki Hessell)....Pages 55-89 Naming: Aloha Ivanhoe (Nikki Hessell)....Pages 91-121 Mapping: Wordsworth and Poems on the Renaming of Places (Nikki Hessell)....Pages 123-158 Building: Relocating Wordsworth’s Architecture (Nikki Hessell)....Pages 159-194 Healing: Isabella, or The Pot of Tulāsi (Nikki Hessell)....Pages 195-227 Conclusion: Regenerating Romanticism (Nikki Hessell)....Pages 229-231 Back Matter ....Pages 233-269 Nikki Hessell. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 233-258) And Index.