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

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

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

Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the microwave: witho