The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English: Volume 4
Subtitle: 1790-1900 (Oxford History of Literary Translation in English)
Contributors: Peter France (Editor); Kenneth Haynes (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 4, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780199246236
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Translation & interpretation; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English-speaking countries; History and criticism; Literature; Translating and interpreting; Translations into English
First sentence: In an essay of 1821, Thomas De Quincey insisted that English literature needed the stimulus of foreign literatures: 'So it is with the literatures of whatsoever land: unless crossed by some other of different breed, they all tend to superannuation.'