Novel Translations: The European Novel and the German Book, 1680-1730

by Bethany Wiggin

Many early novels were cosmopolitan books, read from London to Leipzig and beyond, available in nearly simultaneous translations into French, English, German, and other European languages. In Novel Translations, Bethany Wiggin charts just one of the paths by which newness--in its avatars as fashion, novelties, and the novel--entered the European world in the decades around 1700. As readers across Europe snapped up novels, they domesticated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801476801
• ISBN13: 9780801476808
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher