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The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English

Gordon Braden, Robert Cummings, Stuart Gillespie · ISBN 9780199246212
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Publisher Oxford University Press UK
Author(s) Gordon Braden / Robert Cummings / Stuart Gillespie
Subtitle Volume 2: 1550-1660
Published 14th December 2010
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Volume 2: 1550-1660

In the period covered by this volume comes a drive, unprecedented in its energy and scope, to bring foreign writing of all kinds into English. Translation became, as never before, a part of the English writer's career, and sometimes a whole career in itself. Translation was also fundamental in the evolution of the still unfixed English language and its still unfixed literary styles. Some translations of this period have themselves become landmarks in English
literature and have exercised a profound and enduring influence on perceptions of their originals in the anglophone world; others less well-known are treated more comprehensively here than in any previous
history. The entire phenomenon is documented in an extensive bibliography of literary translations of the period, the most comprehensive ever compiled. The work of our early modern translators, with all its energy, is not always scholarly or even always convincing. But after this era is over English translation never again feels quite so urgent or contentious.
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