Milton in Translation

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Winner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuel Memorial Award (2017) [Milton in Translation] is important for bringing to notice the existence of over 300 translations of Milton into ?fty-seven languages, and the fact that there have been more such translations in the last thirty years than the preceding 300. It is fascinating to read, across a number of essays, of Milton's appropriation as a revolutionary in, for example, the Protestant colonies of North America (Thomas N. Corns), the Catholic colonies of postindependence Latin America (Mario Murgia), and in both Maoist and contemporary China (Bing Yan). * Catherine Bates, Studies in English Literature * What Angelica Duran, Islam Issa, and Jonathan R. Olson have put together for Milton in Translation proves that translation continues to serve an important role in the interpretation of literature. Duran, Issa, and Olson also make an important contribution to Milton studies, despite the exhaustive corpus of literary studies devoted to John Milton's work ... Overall, the editors and contributors provide an engaging look at Milton studies through translation studies and a text that will appeal to scholars and students in both areas. * William John Silverman Jr., Renaissance Quarterly * The volume creates an impressive panopticon of the diversity of target-language-specific reformulations of Milton's epic vision ... this [is a] marvelous insightful, and truly pioneering volume. * Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Milton Quarterly * [Milton] would have approved of Milton in Translation...In total, twenty-three languages are represented in this fascinating volume, including Chinese, Korean, Bulgarian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian and the Finno-Ugric languages. * Neil Forsyth, Times Literary Supplement * Winner of the Milton Society of America's Irene Samuel Memorial Award (2017) Fifty years ago, William Riley Parker opined that 'A good book on the translating of Milton into other languages (and his influence on other literatures) is long overdue.' Here is that book, appearing close to the 350th anniversary of the first appearance of Paradise Lost. * John Hale, Translation and Literature * Milton in Translation (2017) offers an expansive and novel study of the global reach of John Milton through translations into twenty-three languages, bringing together a wealth of knowledge by a wide variety of specialists in their respective fields. Ranging from western Europe to Asia and the Americas, the volume strives to be as inclusive as possible. Given the rising interest in the combined approach of translation and literary studies, this volume demonstrates the potential fruitfulness of such research in both a historical and a more contemporary context. * Rena Bood, H-Nationalism * This is an important collection of essays on the wide range of translations that have been made of Milton's works, encompassing several centuries of publication...The sheer number of translations that the collection manages to catalogue is breathtaking, ranging over the major European languages, through Latin and Hebrew, as well as noting cultural reception from South America to Asia...one can imagine Milton would have approved of the demonstration of this global engagement with his work. * Esther van Raamsdonk, The Modern Language Review *