English Translation and Classical Reception is the first genuine
cross-disciplinary study bringing English literary history to bear on
questions about the reception of classical literary texts, and vice
versa. The text draws on the author's exhaustive knowledge of the
subject from the early Renaissance to the present.
- The first book-length study of English translation as a topic in
classical reception
- Draws on the author's exhaustive knowledge of English literary
translation from the early Renaissance to the present.
- Argues for a remapping of English literary history which would take
proper account of the currently neglected history of classical
translation, from Chaucer to the present
- Offers a widely ranging chronological analysis of English translation
from ancient literatures
- Previously little-known, unknown, and sometimes suppressed translated
texts are recovered from manuscripts and explored in terms of their
implications for English literary history and for the interpretation
of classical literature.