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Book SynopsisFiction has always been in a state of transformation and circulation: how does this history of mobility inform the emergence of the novel? This title 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.
Trade Review"McMurran's book valuably examines translation's role in the beginnings of English copyright law... In demonstrating that nations believed to be unilingual were really multilingual, in affirming their readers' cosmopolitanism to the extent that they dipped into others' literatures, McMurran and her fellow essayists add significantly to studies of the English novel."--Nancy Vogeley, Eighteenth-Century Studies
Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix INTRODUCTION: Eighteenth-Century Translating 1 ONE: Translation and the Modern Novel 27 TWO: The Business of Translation 44 THREE: Taking Liberties: Rendering Practices in Prose Fiction 72 FOUR: The Cross-Channel Emergence of the Novel 99 FIVE: Atlantic Translation and the Undomestic Novel 130 NOTES 159 BIBLIOGRAPHY 207 INDEX 241
