Download or read book The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English written by Gordon McMurry Braden and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history runs from the Middle Ages to the year 2000. It is a critical history, treating translations wherever appropriate as literary works in their own right, and reveals the vital part played by translators and translation in shaping the literary culture of the English-speaking world, both for writers and readers. It offers new perspectives on the history of literature in English. As well as examining the translations and their wider impact, it explores the processes by which they came into being and were disseminated.