{"product_id":"continental-england-elizaveta-strakhov-9780814258163","title":"Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years' War","description":"Scholars have often viewed the Hundred Years' War (c. 1337-1453) between England and France as sharpening animosity and isolationism. Further, medievalists have often characterized translator-source relationships as adversarial. In \u003ci\u003eContinental England\u003c\/i\u003e, Elizaveta Strakhov develops a new model, \u003ci\u003ereparative translation\u003c\/i\u003e, as a corrective to both formulations. Zeroing in on \u003ci\u003eformes fixes\u003c\/i\u003e poetry-and Chaucer as a leading practitioner-she shows that translation played two essential, interrelated roles: it became a channel for rebuilding fragmented communities, and it restored unity to Francophone cultural landscapes fractured by war. Further, used in particular to express England's aspirational relationship to Francophone culture despite the ongoing war, translation became the means by which England negotiated a new vision of itself as Continental rather than self-contained. Chaucer's own translation work and fusion of Francophone and Italian humanist influences in his poetry rendered him a paradigmatic figure for England's new bid for Continental relevance. Interpreting Chaucer's posthumous canonization as a direct result of reparative translation, Strakhov shows how England's transition from island to Continental constituent problematizes our contemporary understandings of nation-bound authors and canons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizaveta Strakhov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814258166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814258163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d","brand":"Elizaveta Strakhov","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48457729081599,"sku":"9780814258163","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_abec96e3-6141-4963-a2d8-0fc472d9b4b2.jpg?v=1777400687","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/continental-england-elizaveta-strakhov-9780814258163","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}