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Winner of the 2008 Wheatley Medal for an outstanding index
The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English
Volume 1: To 1550
Edited by Roger Ellis
496 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-924620-5
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Hardback
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20 March 2008
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- First ever comprehensive study of the subject
- Includes discussion of the Bible, translated many times during the period
- Features writers widely known as translators, like King Alfred; publishers, such as Caxton; and authors such as Chaucer whom we may not at first think of as translators
THE OXFORD HISTORY OF LITERARY TRANSLATION IN ENGLISH
General Editors: Peter France and Stuart Gillespie
This groundbreaking five-volume history runs from the Middle Ages to the year 2000. It is a critical history, treating translations wherever appropriate as literary works in their own right, and reveals the vital part played by translators and translation in shaping the literary culture of the English-speaking world, both for writers and readers. It thus offers new and often challenging perspectives on
the history of literature in English. As well as examining the translations and their wider impact, it explores the processes by which they came into being and were disseminated, and provides extensive bibliographical and biographical reference material.
Volume 1 of The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English originates with what medievalists have long known, that virtually everything written in the Middle Ages in English can be regarded, one way or another, as a translation, and that medieval understandings of what constitutes literature were significantly more generous than many modern ones. It uses modern as well as medieval understandings of translation to inform its discussions (the two understandings have a great deal in common), and it aims to
situate medieval translation in English as fully as possible in its various cultural contexts: this includes, in particular, the complicated inter-relations of translation throughout the period into Latin, and (for the Middle English period) of translation in French. Since it also understands the Middle Ages of its title as including the first half of the sixteenth century, it studies what has survived of nearly a thousand years of translation activity in England.Readership: Academics working in the field of English Literature. Secondarily, academics interested in Comparative Literature, Modern Languages and Literatures, and Cultural Studies, and academics in Classics with a special interest in Reception.
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Edited by Roger Ellis, Formerly Senior Lecturer, University of Cardiff Contributors:
Paul Acker, Saint Louis University
Rosamund Allen, Queen Mary and Westfield College
Alexandra Barratt, Waikato University
John Burrow, formerly University of Bristol
A. E. B. Coldiron, Louisiana State University
Roger Ellis, formerly University of Cardiff
Rosalind Field, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
Vincent Gillespie, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Traugott Lawler, Yale University
David Lawton, Washington University, St Louis
Stephen Medcalf,
formerly University of Sussex
Tim William Machan, Marquette University
Helen Phillips, University of Cardiff
Philipp Rosemann, University of Dallas
Robert Stanton, Boston College
Thea Summerfield, Universiteit Utrecht
Karla Taylor, University of Michigan
Nicholas Watson, Harvard University
Edward Wheatley, Loyola University, Chicago
Barry Windeatt, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
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"Provides a fully readable history of a fasinating phenomenon in English literature. This survey will certainly have a lasting impact" - Dirk Schultze, Anglia "This series is a major milestone in translation studies and Volume 1 maintains the high quality, detail and breadth of coverage. I .. simply urge readers working within translation studies to make use of what is a key resource" - Jeremy Munday, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory "For anyone who has ever had to defend the legitimacy of studying, making, or reading translations, this publication undoubtedly counts as a major event. For anyone who has not considered translation relevant to their own primary interests, the OHLTE
testifies weightily to the contrary." - Michelle R. Warren, Journal of English and Germanic Philology "Achieves an admirable coherence and repays reading from cover to cover." - John M. Fyler, Speculum "This volume provides a fully readable history of a fascinating phenomenon in English literature" "The contributors and editor are to be congratulated for the breadth and quality of these contributions." - Contemporary Review, Winter 2008 "An impressive compendium of information about literary history and textual transmission from Anglo-Saxon England to the early Tudor period." - Translation and Literature
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General Editors' Foreword
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Preface
1. Contexts of Translation
1.1: John Burrow: The Languages of Medieval England
1.2: Tim William Machan: Manuscript Culture
1.3: Helen Phillips: Nation, Region, Class, and Gender
2. Theories of TranslationNicholas Watson:
3. The Translator
Introduction
3.1: Roger Ellis: Patronage and Sponsorship of Translation
3.2: Robert Stanton: King Alfred
3.3: Philipp Rosemann: Robert Grosseteste
3.4: Barry Windeatt: Geoffrey Chaucer
3.5: Traugott Lawler: William Langland
3.6: A. E. B. Coldiron: William Caxton
4. The Developing Corpus of Literary TranslationEdward Wheatley:
5. Subjects of Translation
5.1: David Lawton: The Bible
5.2: Vincent Gillespie: Religious Writing
5.3: Alexandra Barratt: Religious Writing and Women Translators
5.4: Rosalind Field: Romance
5.5: Thea Summerfield, assisted by Rosamund Allen: Chronicle and History
5.6: Stephen Medcalf: Classical Authors
5.7: Karla Taylor: Writers of the Italian Renaissance
5.8: Paul Acker: Scientific and Medical Writing
6. The Translators: Biographical Sketches
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