Collaborative Translation and Multi-Version Texts in Early Modern Europe

’…a richly detailed challenge to some cherished idees fixes. The book poses the act of translation as a collaborative and/or serial practice that challenges not only medieval and early modern theorists’ efforts to stabilize and codify translation, but also modern critical efforts to read translations in certain ways (as non-authorial, as products of singular agency, as “invisible”). The author presents as chief evidence multilingual books and multi-version books, both manuscript and printed codices, and the range of these is wonderful to behold.’ A.E.B. Coldiron, Florida State University ‘… a unique and truly innovative study in translation and premodern literary studies.’ Publishing Research Quarterly ‘[Bistue’s] facility with a range of materials that jump across centuries, borders, and subject matter is equally impressive and her findings should reinvigorate literary and translation studies of this period.’ SHARP News

Belén Bistué is Tenured Researcher for CONICET, and Assistant Professor of British and North American Literature at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina.