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Author:

McMurran, Mary Helen, 1962-

Title:

The spread of novels : translation and prose fiction in the eighteenth century / Mary Helen McMurran.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

x, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
French fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
Translating and interpreting--History--18th century.
English fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
French fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Book industries and trade--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Book industries and trade--France--History--18th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction. Eighteenth-century translating -- 1. Translation and the modern novel -- 2. business of translation -- 3. Taking liberties : rendering practices in prose fiction -- 4. cross-Channel emergence of the novel -- 5. Atlantic translation and the undomestic novel.

Series:

Translation/transnation.

ISBN:

0691141533 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780691141534 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0691141525 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780691141527 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)320351825

LCCN:

2009017844

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)