Book Review: André Rui Graça: Portuguese Cinema (1960–2010): Consumption, Circulation and Commerce

Abstract

circumstances in which translation was undertaken were always complex: a woman translator was not necessarily translating as a woman. Finally, Brown opens up a new area for research by drawing attention to the amount of translation by women that remained in manuscript and may be increased by future archival research. She reconstructs the relative importance of manuscript versus print publication in early modern culture, showing that manuscripts often had high prestige: a text might be carefully copied as a valuable gift, while aristocrats often thought print publication beneath their dignity. Without underrating the potential importance of gender issues in the study of early modern translation, Brown fruitfully questions some critical orthodoxies by correcting anachronistic and over-simple interpretations. Her command of the relevant scholarship is confirmed by her bibliography, with its list of manuscripts consulted in German libraries, primary texts, and 25 pages of secondary literature. Clearly her prolonged visits to the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel have reaped rewards.