CAROLINE SCHLEGEL-SCHELLING:The presence in the Frühromantik through epistolary writing
translation; Caroline Schlegel-Schelling; German pre-romanticism; epistolary writing; otherness.
Within the framework of translation studies, this dissertation analyses the correspondence of Caroline Schlegel-Schelling (1763-1809), a little-known author and translator of the Jena Circle and German Pre-Romanticism, focusing on the translation of two letters written during the Napoleonic invasions. The study analyses the articulation between translation, history and alterity from the perspective of German Pre-Romanticism, arguing that socio-political instability and constant foreign threat are fundamental to understanding Caroline's epistolary writing. The letters, marked by the urgency of life, uncertainties and reflections on the Other, are analysed in the light of the practice of translation, understood as a network of exchange between eighteenth-century German and contemporary Portuguese. The translation not only reveals aspects of a unique epistolary writing, but also highlights the presence of a revolutionary woman in the context of her time.