Title The spread of novels : translation and prose fiction in the eighteenth century / Mary Helen McMurran.

Publication Info.	Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2010]
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (x, 252 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Translation/transnation
	Translation/transnation.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-240) and index.
Contents	Eighteenth-century translating -- Translation and the modern novel -- The business of translation -- Taking liberties : rendering practices in prose fiction -- The cross-Channel emergence of the novel -- Atlantic translation and the undomestic novel.
Summary	Fiction has always been in a state of transformation and circulation: how does this history of mobility inform the emergence of the novel? The Spread of Novels explores the active movements of English and French fiction in the eighteenth century and argues that the new literary form of the novel was the result of a shift in translation. Demonstrating that translation was both the cause and means by which the novel attained success, Mary Helen McMurran shows how this period was a watershed in translation history, signaling the end of a premodern system of translation and the advent of modern li.
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Subject	English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
	English fiction.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	French fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
	French fiction.
	Translating and interpreting -- History -- 18th century.
	Translating and interpreting.
	History.
	English fiction -- Translations into French -- History and criticism.
	English fiction -- Translations into French.
	French fiction -- Translations into English -- History and criticism.
	French fiction -- Translations into English.
	Book industries and trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
	Book industries and trade.
	Great Britain.
	Book industries and trade -- France -- History -- 18th century.
	France.
Chronological Term	Geschichte 1700-1800
	1700 - 1799
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: McMurran, Mary Helen, 1962- Spread of novels. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010 9780691141534 (DLC) 2009017844 (OCoLC)320351825
ISBN	9781400831371 (electronic book)
	1400831377 (electronic book)
	1282473174
	9781282473171
	1282935704
	9781282935709
	0691141525
	9780691141527
	0691141533
	9780691141534

Title The spread of novels : translation and prose fiction in the eighteenth century / Mary Helen McMurran.

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