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Author: Peter France (, Emeritus Professor of French, University of Edinburgh) ,
Kenneth Haynes (, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Volume: 4
Dimensions:
Width: 16.40cm
, Height: 5.30cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 1.078kg
ISBN: 9780199246236
ISBN 10: 0199246238
Pages: 612
Publication Date: 23 February 2006
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Together with volume 3 in the series, Peter France and his team provided a comprehensive documentation of nearly two and a half centuries of translating in Great Britian. Armin Paul Frank Target ...monumental achievement...admirably comprehensive project. Diego Saglia A critical and historical work in its own right...all the contributors to the volume have consistently maintained an impressive standard of scholarship. There are no weak sections...an up-to-date bibliography to serve as a stimulus to fuller exploration. Leon Burnett, Translation and Literature The editors and contributors are to be warmly congratulated for assembling, consolidating and making available so much useful knowledge William St Clair, TLS The virtues of this capacious, well-ordered volume augur well for the colossal work-in-progress in which it will hold the penultimate place... The book is eminently browsable and consultable Herbert F. Tucker, Modern Philolgy This collection is a goldmine of information regarding an important part of our literary heritage in an age in which it has reached unparalled heights. Contemporary Review, Volume 288 This volume, the second in the series to be published, is if anything an even more valuable addition than volume III to our understanding of the complete range of what was being read in Britain and the United States during the period that it covers. MLR, 103.1
Author Information
After National Service on the Russian interpreters' course, Peter France read French and Russian at Magdalen College, Oxford (1955-8), followed by study in Grenoble and Paris and an Oxford D. Phil. on Racine in 1963. From 1963 to 1980 he taught in the School of European Studies at the newly established University of Sussex, with a visiting year at the University of British Columbia. In 1980 he moved to the University of Edinburgh as Professor of French, becoming an Endowment Fellow in 1990 and an Honorary Fellow on his retiral in 2000. From 1979 to 1985 he was French Editor of the Modern Language Review, and has served on the advisory boards of numerous journals. He has been President of the British Comparative Literature Association (1992-8) and the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (1993-5). He is a Foreign Member of the Chuvash National Academy, a Fellow of both the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Chevalier of the French Légion d'Honneur. Kenneth Haynes is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. His previous publications include English Literature and Ancient Languages (OUP, 2003) and as co-editor, Horace in English (Penguin, 1996).
