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‎Writing Distant Travels and Linguistic Otherness in Early Modern England (c. 1550-1660)‎

‎, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 280, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:4 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503599632.‎

‎Summary As Britain's global interests expanded from the mid-sixteenth century, geographic mobility encouraged many forms of multilingual practices in English writings. Translations, lexical borrowings, and records of exchanges between travellers and far-off lands and peoples diversely registered, communicated, engaged and politicised encounters with alterity. Meanwhile, earlier continental European translations also influenced and complicated the reception of distant otherness, entailing questions of linguistic hybridity or pluralism. This volume explores some of the practices and strategies underpinning polyglot encounters in travel accounts produced, translated, or read in England, as well as in artistic and educational materials inflected by those travels. Drawing on linguistic, lexicographic, literary, and historical methodologies, the twelve chapters in this volume collectively look into the contexts and significances of textual contact zones. Particular attention is paid to uses of multilingualism in processes of identity construction, defining and promoting national or imperial agendas, appropriating and assimilating foreign linguistic capital, or meeting resistance and limits from linguistic and cultural otherness refusing to lend itself to a subjected or go-between status. Treating of indigenous languages, newly anglicized words, and new artistic and instructional materials, the volume makes the case for the vibrancy and influence of early modern English engagements with polyglossia and the need for multiple scales of approach to - and interdisciplinary perspectives on - the subject. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: A World of Words Ladan Niayesh, with Chlo Houston and Sophie Lemercier-Goddard Part I. Intralinguistic Communication in the Contact Zone 1. 'Ylyaovte!' English Engagements with the 'Strange' Tongues of the Far North Matthew Dimmock 2. Speaking in Tongues in Virginia: Strategies of Translation in Algonquian-English First Encounters Sophie Lemercier-Goddard 3. The Madoc Legend: Language and Race at the Dawn of the First British Empire Andrew Hadfield Part II. Producing Knowledge: Travel Writing and Translation 4. Translating Iberian Polyglossia in Richard Eden's The Arte of navigation Anna Demoux 5. 'To all gentlemen, merchants and pilots': Style and Ideology in John Florio's Two Navigations Donatella Montini 6. Englishing Strangers in Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations Emily Stevenson 7. The Arabic and Ottoman Turkish Languages in Early Modern English Travel Accounts of the Ottoman Empire Anders Ingram Part III. The Stuff of Words: Material and Literary Traces 8. Linguistic Reclaimings of Persia in Early Modern Travelogues and Travel Fiction Ladan Niayesh 9. Translating Mexican Cochineal in Shakespeare's Drama Armelle Sabatier 10. Acts of Translation: The Persian Language on Stage and Page in The Travels of the Three English Brothers (1607) and Mirza (1655) Chlo Houston 11. 'Why speak you this broken French when y'are a whole Englishman?': French, Travelling, Self-Satire, and Cultural Mediation in London City Comedy Asseline Sel 12. 'Their Garments variegate like ye fishes in ye Euxine sea': Fashion, Languages, and Perceptions of the Ottoman World at the Early Modern English Universities Sarah Knight Index‎