Milton in Translation

Milton in Translation represents an unprecedented collaboration that demonstrates the breadth of John Milton's international reception, from the seventeenth century through today. This book collects in one volume new essays written on the translation of Milton's works written by an international roster of experts: stalwart and career-long Miltonists, scholars primarily of translation studies, and practitioners who have translated Milton's works. Chapters are grouped geographically but also, by and large, chronologically, given that Milton's works radiated further abroad over time. The chapters on the twenty-three individual languages showcased in this volume are framed by 'Part I: Approaches', consisting of an introduction and two major essays on the global reach and the aural nature of Milton's poetry, and by an epilogue. 'Part II: Influential Translations' features the most influential languages in translations of Milton's works (English, Latin, German, French). Then, accounts of Milton's afterlives in specific languages are provided in 'Part III. Western European and Latin American Translations' (Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Icelandic, Italian, Portuguese, European Spanish, Latin American Spanish), 'Part IV: Central and Eastern European Translations' (Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian/Montenegrin, Serbo-Croatian languages), 'Part V: Middle Eastern Translations' (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian), and 'Part VI: East Asian Translations' (Chinese, Japanese, Korean). The chapters in Parts II through VI include historical and critical context, a brief history of translation in the language, and a case study on any single work or group of Milton's works in translation.

1 - Introduction: From 'Cambalu' to 'El Dorado'
2 - Milton's Global Reach
3 - Lost and Regained in Translation: The Sound of Paradise Lost
4 - 'Levelling the Sublime': Translating Paradise Lost into English in the Eighteenth Century
5 - 'Translated Verse': Milton's Latin Poetry in the Long Eighteenth Century
6 - 'Latinizing' Milton: Paradise Lost, Latinitas, and the Long Eighteenth Century
7 - Domesticating and Foreignizing the Sublime: Paradise Lost in German
8 - 'The French Connection' among French Translations of Milton and within du Bocage's Paradis terrestre
9 - Paradise Lost in Dutch, 1728-2003: Form, Politics, Religion
10 - A Vision in Times of Need: Milton in Estonia
11 - Traces of the Birth of the State of Finland in Jylhä's Translation of Paradise Lost
12 - Iceland's Milton: On Jón Þorláksson's Translation of Paradise Lost
13 - 'Censur'd to Be Much Inferiour': Paradise Lost and Regained in Italian
14 - Milton in Portuguese: A Story in Blank Verse
15 - Paradise Lost in Spanish Translation and as World Literature
16 - Either in Prose or Rhyme: Translating Milton in(to) Latin America
17 - The Quest for the Right Accent: Milton in Bulgarian Translation
18 - Jungmann's Translation of Paradise Lost in the Vanguard of Modern Czech Culture
19 - In 'Milton's Prison': Milton in Hungarian Translation
20 - Translation as Resistance: Three Centuries of Paradise Lost in Polish
21 - Milton in Serbian/Montenegrin: Paradise Lost from behind Bars
22 - Milton in Illyria
23 - Paradise Lost in Arabic: Images, Style, and Technique
24 - Pre-Eminent among Gentiles: Milton's Major Poetry in Hebrew Translations
25 - Plotting a Persian Paradise: Milton's Iranian Afterlives
26 - Milton in China 'Yet Once More'
27 - Translating Milton's Poetry into Japanese with a Case Study of Samson Agonistes
28 - The 1960s and Paradise Lost in Korean

Angelica Duran is Professor at Purdue University, where she has been on the English and Comparative Literature faculties since earning her Ph.D. in English Literature from Stanford in 2000. She served as Purdue's Director of Religious Studies from 2009 to 2013. She is the editor of A Concise Companion to Milton (2007, pbk. And rev. 2011) and The King James Bible across Borders and Centuries (2014), the co-editor of Mo Yan in Context, and the author of Milton among Spaniards (2020), The Age of Milton and the Scientific Revolution (2007), and more than 40 articles and chapters. Her professional roles include President of the Milton Society of America (2020-21) and editorial board member of Milton Quarterly (2005-). Islam Issa is Reader in Literature and History at Birmingham City University. He has published on the global and digital reception of early modern English literature,including the award-winning book, Milton in the Arab-Muslim World (2016, pbk. 2019) and Digital Milton (2018, pbk. 2019). He is translating and editing the first Arabic edition of Milton's sonnets and has worked as a simultaneous interpreter of Arabic to English for a range of high-profile figures. Issa has written regularly on Milton for such media outlets as The Guardian and Times Literary Supplement. He is also a regular broadcaster on the BBC, for whom he has presented television and radio documentaries and served as Research Consultant for the BBC Poetry Season episode on Milton. Jonathan R. Olson is Associate Professor of English at Grand Canyon University, where he teaches in the Honors College. He taught literature and film as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Liverpool and held a Mellon Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Warwick's Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and at the Newberry Library. His research focuses on early modern English literature, book history, and cinema, and he contributed recently to Global Milton and Visual Art (2021) and Essays and Studies (2021). For research on Selling an English Canon: Literary Publishing, 1640-1710, he held bibliographical fellowships at the Beinecke, Clark, Houghton, and Huntington libraries.