Stuart Gillespie took his BA, MA, and Ph.D at Downing College, Cambridge (1977-87), and was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Glasgow in 1983. He is now Reader in English Literature at Glasgow, and lives in Glasgow with his wife Karen and their four children. He was in 1992 founding editor of Translation and Literature (Edinburgh University Press), now the preeminent scholarly journal in its field, which he continues to edit. He has recently acted or is acting as an editor, advisor, and/or contributor on numerous standard reference works and other large projects, including the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the Oxford Companion to English Literature, the Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation, the Harvard UP compilation The Classical Tradition, the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, the Dictionary of British Classicists, and The Year's Work in English Studies. David Hopkins is Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol.

...monumental achievement...admirably comprehensive project.

• CHAPTER 1: THE PLACE OF TRANSLATION IN THE LITERARY AND CULTURAL FIELD, 1660-1790; CHAPTER 2: THEORIES OF TRANSLATION; CHAPTER 3: THE TRANSLATOR; CHAPTER 4: THE DEVELOPING CORPUS OF LITERARY TRANSLATION; CHAPTER 5: CLASSICAL GREEK AND LATIN LITERATURE; CHAPTER 6: FRENCH LITERATURE; CHAPTER 7: OTHER MODERN EUROPEAN LITERATURES; CHAPTER 8: MIDDLE EASTERN AND ORIENTAL LITERATURE; CHAPTER 9: POST-CLASSICAL LATIN LITERATURE; CHAPTER 10: THE TRANSLATORS: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Stuart Gillespie took his BA, MA, and Ph.D at Downing College, Cambridge (1977-87), and was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Glasgow in 1983. He is now Reader in English Literature at Glasgow, and lives in Glasgow with his wife Karen and their four children. He was in 1992 founding editor of Translation and Literature (Edinburgh University Press), now the preeminent scholarly journal in its field, which he continues to edit. He has recently acted or is acting as an editor, advisor, and/or contributor on numerous standard reference works and other large projects, including the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the Oxford Companion to English Literature, the Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation, the Harvard UP compilation The Classical Tradition, the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, the Dictionary of British Classicists, and The Year's Work in English Studies. David Hopkins is Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol.

...monumental achievement...admirably comprehensive project.

• CHAPTER 1: THE PLACE OF TRANSLATION IN THE LITERARY AND CULTURAL FIELD, 1660-1790; CHAPTER 2: THEORIES OF TRANSLATION; CHAPTER 3: THE TRANSLATOR; CHAPTER 4: THE DEVELOPING CORPUS OF LITERARY TRANSLATION; CHAPTER 5: CLASSICAL GREEK AND LATIN LITERATURE; CHAPTER 6: FRENCH LITERATURE; CHAPTER 7: OTHER MODERN EUROPEAN LITERATURES; CHAPTER 8: MIDDLE EASTERN AND ORIENTAL LITERATURE; CHAPTER 9: POST-CLASSICAL LATIN LITERATURE; CHAPTER 10: THE TRANSLATORS: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Stuart Gillespie took his BA, MA, and Ph.D at Downing College, Cambridge (1977-87), and was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Glasgow in 1983. He is now Reader in English Literature at Glasgow, and lives in Glasgow with his wife Karen and their four children. He was in 1992 founding editor of Translation and Literature (Edinburgh University Press), now the preeminent scholarly journal in its field, which he continues to edit. He has recently acted or is acting as an editor, advisor, and/or contributor on numerous standard reference works and other large projects, including the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the Oxford Companion to English Literature, the Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation, the Harvard UP compilation The Classical Tradition, the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, the Dictionary of British Classicists, and The Year's Work in English Studies. David Hopkins is Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol.

...monumental achievement...admirably comprehensive project.

• CHAPTER 1: THE PLACE OF TRANSLATION IN THE LITERARY AND CULTURAL FIELD, 1660-1790; CHAPTER 2: THEORIES OF TRANSLATION; CHAPTER 3: THE TRANSLATOR; CHAPTER 4: THE DEVELOPING CORPUS OF LITERARY TRANSLATION; CHAPTER 5: CLASSICAL GREEK AND LATIN LITERATURE; CHAPTER 6: FRENCH LITERATURE; CHAPTER 7: OTHER MODERN EUROPEAN LITERATURES; CHAPTER 8: MIDDLE EASTERN AND ORIENTAL LITERATURE; CHAPTER 9: POST-CLASSICAL LATIN LITERATURE; CHAPTER 10: THE TRANSLATORS: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES