Translating the Self: Sexuality, Religion, and Sanctuary in John Addington Symonds's Cellini and other Acts of Life Writing

Translation in life writing begins in the act of finding linguistic equivalences but can lead to complex epistemological and ideological transpositions. John Addington Symonds's translation of the memoir of Benvenuto Cellini (1888) is the focal point for a broader consideration of the place of translation in Symonds's queer-coded late Victorian life writing.