Invading the American Canon: Translators of Russian Literary Fiction, 1863-1984

Through case studies of émigré literary translators and editors, this open access book traces how Russian literature kindled the American imagination in the 20th century.

In the 19th century, American literature was invaded by great Russian novels, including the works of Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gorky, and others, all mediated, translated, and sometimes even discovered by devoted freelance translators like Isabel Hapgood, Leo Wiener, and Nathan Haskell Dole. Throughout the 1900s these ...