"The editors and contributors are to be warmly congratulated for assembling, consolidating and making available so much useful knowledge' William St Clair, Time

Translation has played a vital part in the history of literature throughout the English-speaking world. Offering for the first time a comprehensive view of this

Volume 2 explores the period when a drive, unprecedented in its energy and scope, to bring foreign writing of all kinds into English emerged, and when translati

This book, written by a team of experts from many countries, provides a comprehensive account of the ways in which translation has brought the major literature

Volume 3 of the Oxford History of Literary Translation in English lies at the chronological centre of the History, and explores in full breadth both the rich tr