Cathy McAteer

Cold War Women

Female Translators of Russian and Soviet Literature in the Twentieth Century
Herausgeber: Baer, Brian James; Woods, Michelle

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents original archival research on eight largely unknown émigré translators whose work during the Cold War actively contributed to and, in some cases, decisively shaped the reception of Russian and Soviet literature throughout the English-speaking world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9798765112243
• Artikelnr.: 74428573

Autorenporträt

Cathy McAteer (University of Exeter) is a European Research Council-funded postdoctoral fellow. She researches mainly the history of Russian literature in English translation, specifically the people and processes behind publications. Her first monograph Translating Great Russian Literature: The Penguin Russian Classics (2021) is available in Gold Open Access.

Inhaltsangabe

List of FIgures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Out of the Fire: Russophone Émigrée Translator-Mediators to the UK
2. Desperately Seeking Socialism: Ideological British Émigrées in the USSR
3. Shifting Ideologies: Translation in Testing Times
4. A Different Ideology: Russophone Émigrée Translator-Mediators to the US
Conclusion: From Cold War Women to Today
Bibligography
Index