Translating ‘unprejudiced, bright and philanthropic views’ : Henry Brougham and Anglo-Swedish exchanges in the early nineteenth century
Wadsö-Lecaros, Cecilia LU
(2018)
In Romantik: Journal for the Study of Romanticisms
7(1).
p.73-96
- Abstract
- During the Romantic period, translation played a key role in the mediation of reform ideas from Britain to the Nordic countries, and many translators of texts aiming at social reform wished to instigate change in their home countries. This article focuses on how Henry Brougham’s programme for popular education, as presented in Practical Observations upon the Education of the People (1825), was made available to Swedish readers in a translation by Frans Anton Ewerlöf, in 1832. The translation process and the representation of Brougham in Sweden in the 1820s and 1830s are discussed. Ewerlöf read and decided to translate Brougham’s text in 1827, and a few years later he travelled to Britain to observe how Brougham’s ideas had been put into... (More)
- During the Romantic period, translation played a key role in the mediation of reform ideas from Britain to the Nordic countries, and many translators of texts aiming at social reform wished to instigate change in their home countries. This article focuses on how Henry Brougham’s programme for popular education, as presented in Practical Observations upon the Education of the People (1825), was made available to Swedish readers in a translation by Frans Anton Ewerlöf, in 1832. The translation process and the representation of Brougham in Sweden in the 1820s and 1830s are discussed. Ewerlöf read and decided to translate Brougham’s text in 1827, and a few years later he travelled to Britain to observe how Brougham’s ideas had been put into practice. As a result, the Swedish translation combines travel writing with Ewerlöf’s own reflections on Brougham’s text, offering a foreigner’s assessment of what had transpired in Britain after Brougham wrote his book. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Already during the Romantic period, translation played a key role in the mediation of reform ideas from Britain to the Nordic countries, and many translators of texts aiming at social reform wished to instigate change in their home countries. The focus of the present article is on the way in which Henry Brougham’s programme for popular education, as presented in Practical Observations upon the Education of the People (1825), was transferred to Swedish readers by Frans Anton Ewerlöf (1832). The translation process and the representation of Brougham in Sweden in the 1820s and 1830s will be discussed. Ewerlöf had read and decided to translate Brougham’s text already in 1827, and a few years later he travelled to Britain to observe how... (More)
- Already during the Romantic period, translation played a key role in the mediation of reform ideas from Britain to the Nordic countries, and many translators of texts aiming at social reform wished to instigate change in their home countries. The focus of the present article is on the way in which Henry Brougham’s programme for popular education, as presented in Practical Observations upon the Education of the People (1825), was transferred to Swedish readers by Frans Anton Ewerlöf (1832). The translation process and the representation of Brougham in Sweden in the 1820s and 1830s will be discussed. Ewerlöf had read and decided to translate Brougham’s text already in 1827, and a few years later he travelled to Britain to observe how Brougham’s ideas had by then been put into practice. As a result, the Swedish translation combines travel writing with Ewerlöf’s reflective comments on Brougham’s text, offering a foreigner’s assessment of what had transpired in Britain after Brougham wrote his book. (Less)
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- Wadsö-Lecaros, Cecilia
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2018
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Brougham, Ewerlöf, Education, Translation, Cultural exchange, Sweden
- in
- Romantik: Journal for the Study of Romanticisms
- volume
- 7
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 24 pages
- publisher
- V&R unipress
- ISSN
- 2245-599X
- DOI
- 10.14220/jsor.2018.7.1.73
- project
- Translations with an agenda: The Swedish introduction and translation of 19th-century British social-reform literature
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- English
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- yes
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