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Contents General Editors' Preface viii List of Contributors ix Abbreviations x Introduction 1 1. The Place of Translation in the Literary and Cultural Field, 1660-1790 1.1 Translation and Canon-Formation 7 Stuart Gillespie 1.2 Translation and Literary Innovation 21 Stuart Gillespie and Robin Sowerby 1.3 The Publishing and Readership of Translation 38 Stuart Gillespie and Penelope Wilson 2. Theories of Translation 2.1 Dryden and his Contemporaries 55 David Hopkins 2.2 The Eighteenth Century to Tytler 67 Louis Kelly 3. The Translator 3.1 The Translator's Trade 81 David Hopkins and Pat Rogers 3.2 Poetic Translators: An Overview 96 Penelope Wilson 3.3 Tobias Smollett: A Case Study 105 Leslie A. Chilton 3.4 Women Translators 111 Sarah Annes Brown 4. The Developing Corpus of Literary Translation 121 Stuart Gillespie 5. Classical Greek and Latin Literature 5.1 Epic 149 Robin Sowerby 5.2 Lyric, Pastoral, and Elegy 173 Penelope Wilson 5.3 Didactic Poetry 191 Paul Davis 5.4 Ovid 204 Garth Tissol 5.5 Roman Satire and Epigram 218 David Hopkins 5.6 Drama 241 Paulina Kewes 5.7 Moralists, Orators, and Literary Critics 253 Tom Winnifrith 5.8 Greek Historians 272 Tom Winnifrith 5.9 Latin Historians 281 Tom Winnifrith 5.10 Prose Fiction and Fable 291 Glyn Pursglove and Karina Williamson 6. French Literature 6.1 Poetry 309 Peter France 6.2 Drama 317 Paulina Kewes 6.3 Prose Fiction: Excluding Romance 328 Stephen Ahern 6.4 Prose Fiction: Courtly and Popular Romance 339 Jennifer Birkett 6.5 Fairy Tales, Fables, and Children's Literature 349 Penelope Brown 6.6 Moralists and Philosophers 361 Peter France 6.7 Literary Criticism 374 Philip Smallwood 6.8 Voltaire and Rousseau 381 Peter France 7. Other Modern European Literatures 7.1 Italian Literature 395 Richard Bates 7.2 Spanish Literature 406 Richard Hitchcock 7.3 Ossian, Primitivism, Celticism 416 Fiona Stafford 7.4 Chaucer and Other Earlier English Poetry 427 Tom Mason 8. Middle Eastern and Oriental Literature 8.1 The Birth of Orientalism: Sir William Jones 443 Clive Holes 8.2 Biblical Translation and Paraphrase 456 Donald Mackenzie 8.3 The Arabian Nights' Entertainments and Other 'Oriental' Tales 470 Robert Mack 9. Post-Classical Latin Literature 477 Robert Cummings 10. The Translators: Biographical Sketches 507 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Literature -- Translations into English -- History and criticism.
Translating and interpreting -- English-speaking countries.