English Translation and Classical Reception
Towards a New Literary History
Published on 24. February 2011
224 pages
978-1-4443-9648-5 (ISBN)
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English Translation and Classical Reception is the firstgenuine cross-disciplinary study bringing English literary historyto bear on questions about the reception of classical literarytexts, and vice versa. The text draws on the author'sexhaustive knowledge of the subject from the early Renaissance tothe present.
* The first book-length study of English translation as a topicin classical reception
* Draws on the author's exhaustive knowledge of Englishliterary translation from the early Renaissance to the present
* Argues for a remapping of English literary history which wouldtake proper account of the currently neglected history of classicaltranslation, from Chaucer to the present
* Offers a widely ranging chronological analysis of Englishtranslation from ancient literatures
* Previously little-known, unknown, and sometimes suppressedtranslated texts are recovered from manuscripts and explored interms of their implications for English literary history and forthe interpretation of classical literature
Reviews / Votes
"Stuart Gillespie's English Translation andClassical Reception is a beneficiary of this ferment, supplementedby the author's comprehensive knowledge of translationhistory, translation theory, and the growing bibliography in hisfield." (Modern Philology, 1 August 2014) "Overall, this volume will be a key resource for the study ofcreative translation of classical texts in English, and thoroughlysucceeds in emphasising its importance in the history of Englishliterature. Its author's unmatched grasp of the range of the sourcematerial is a great benefit...." (Bmcreview, 8 February 2012) "Taken together, the various case studies of the bookexpress an energetic engagement with the rich inheritance ofclassical literature and its complex role in and through Englishtranslation." (CJ-Online, 5 September 2012) "This bold book is a welcome challenge to sacred tenets ofEnglish literary history. Gillespie brilliantly and rigorouslyforces us to face the inconvenient truth of the role of classicaltranslation in English literature." Susanna Braund, University of British Columbia "We have long needed this meta-history explaining the canonof literary translations and its strategic omissions.Gillespie's magisterial survey gives the pleasure of aconspective view clearly expressed." Alastair Fowler, University of Edinburgh "An inspiring and astringent polemic on behalf oftranslation, the creative carriage into English of Homer, Virgil,Lucretius and others, and its vitalizing effect on literarytradition." Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge "These carefully crafted studies by a leading expert intranslation studies collectively make an overwhelming case for thecentrality of literary translation in the history both of Englishliterature and of the reception of classicalantiquity." Philip Hardie, Trinity College, Cambridge "A brilliant guide to the major issues that drive translationstudies, equally illuminating on both lost or neglected works andon some of the most familiar masterpieces, ancient andmodern." Joseph Farrell, University of PennsylvaniaMore details
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Stuart Gillespie is Reader in English Literature at theUniversity of Glasgow, Scotland. His recent publications includeShakespeare's Books: A Dictionary of ShakespeareSources (2001), Shakespeare and Elizabethan PopularCulture, edited with Neil Rhodes (2006), and The CambridgeCompanion to Lucretius, edited with Philip Hardie (2007). Heedits the journal Translation and Literature and isco-editor of The Oxford History of Literary Translation inEnglish series.
Content
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Note on Texts.
1. Making the Classics Belong: A Historical Introduction.
2. Creative Translation.
3. English Renaissance Poets and the Translating Tradition.
4. Two-Way Reception: Shakespeare's Influence onPlutarch.
5. Transformative Translation: Dryden's Horatian Ode.
6. Statius and the Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Poetry.
7. Classical Translation and the Formation of the EnglishLiterary Canon.
8. Evidence for an Alternative History: Manuscript Translationsof the Long Eighteenth Century.
9. Receiving Wordsworth, Receiving Juvenal: Wordsworth'sSuppressed Eighth Satire.
10. The Persistence of Translations: Lucretius in the NineteenthCentury.
11. 'Oddity and struggling dumbness': TedHughes's Homer.
12. Afterword.
References.
Index of Ancient Authors and Passages.
General Index.
