Muireann Maguire is Professor in Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of Stalin's Ghosts: Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Language (2021), and co-editor of Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context (forthcoming, 2024) and Reading Backwards: An Advance Retrospective on Russian Literature (2021). She is also an active freelance translator from Russian to English.

• List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsNotes on Transliteration, Citation, and ReferencingIntroduction: Russian and American Literature in the Twentieth Century Introduction: Fraternal twins Methodology: Translator studies Introducing Nicholas Wreden ‘Gorki at Coney Island’: A critical overview ‘A Great Treasure’: Russian literature as intellectual and aesthetic capitalConclusion1. The Taming of the Arts: Publishing Russian Literature in America to 1935 ‘The great Autocracy and the great Republic’The earliest American translators: Schuyler and his successors Schuyler’s translations: ‘More Or Less Clumsily Englished’‘Fragments of a foreign feast’: Translation at the turn of the nineteenth century Hapgood and Dole: ‘Cobbling Extraordinary’Hapgood and Gorky: ‘rather strong meat’Aline Delano and Korolenko: ‘comparatively, no sense of humor’Thomas Seltzer: ‘a tiny Jew, but trustworthy’Conclusion: Ram them!2. Unmaking A Russian: The Rise of Nicholas Wreden Unmaking a Russian, Making an American “Go Into The Book Business!” Wreden as book travelerAdventures in the retail trade: Wreden the bookstore manager‘A big job to do during the next couple of years’: Wreden on committees‘An invaluable member of this organization’: Wreden as editorWreden and Russophone cultural networks Conclusion: Greeting ghosts 3. To Live As We Wish: Nicholas Wreden as TranslatorIntroduction: ‘a staggering amount’Soviet sex crime: The reception of Dog Lane on both sides of the Pacific ‘Gremlins in their Kremlins’: The Fifth Seal scandalGazdanov and The Specter of Alexander WolfConclusion4. I’ll Never Go Back: Russian-Americans in Translation and PublishingIntroduction: A constellation of translatorsBoris Brasol: ‘a red rag to all Jewish readers’John Cournos: ‘unaccountable predilections’A World May End: Irina Skariatina‘An Unfortunate Case of Versatility’: The adventures of Bernard Guilbert Guerney ‘I Think Every Good American Should Have A Book’: Bookstore owner and publisher“I hope the nail on your big toe dies of small pox”: Guerney’s career as translator and anthologist‘Kid Pasternak’ and the ‘Zhivago job’Conclusion5. For Thee The Best: Ardis, and a Different Kind of ArdorIntroduction: On the Soviet literary frontThe foundation of ArdisProbably the greatest poets of the century: the translation of Mandel’shtam, Brodsky, and SokolovCarl Proffer: ‘On the whole, with accuracy’A “complex phenomenon”: Ardis and its achievementsConclusion: Wheelchair basketballConclusion: Through the Years Two deathsIndex

This book is an important contribution to the field of translator studies and to the history of the translation and reception of Russian literature in the United States from the Civil War through the halcyon days of Ardis Publishers ... Thoroughly researched and vividly written.

Muireann Maguire is Professor in Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of Stalin's Ghosts: Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Language (2021), and co-editor of Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context (forthcoming, 2024) and Reading Backwards: An Advance Retrospective on Russian Literature (2021). She is also an active freelance translator from Russian to English.

• List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsNotes on Transliteration, Citation, and ReferencingIntroduction: Russian and American Literature in the Twentieth Century Introduction: Fraternal twins Methodology: Translator studies Introducing Nicholas Wreden ‘Gorki at Coney Island’: A critical overview ‘A Great Treasure’: Russian literature as intellectual and aesthetic capitalConclusion1. The Taming of the Arts: Publishing Russian Literature in America to 1935 ‘The great Autocracy and the great Republic’The earliest American translators: Schuyler and his successors Schuyler’s translations: ‘More Or Less Clumsily Englished’‘Fragments of a foreign feast’: Translation at the turn of the nineteenth century Hapgood and Dole: ‘Cobbling Extraordinary’Hapgood and Gorky: ‘rather strong meat’Aline Delano and Korolenko: ‘comparatively, no sense of humor’Thomas Seltzer: ‘a tiny Jew, but trustworthy’Conclusion: Ram them!2. Unmaking A Russian: The Rise of Nicholas Wreden Unmaking a Russian, Making an American “Go Into The Book Business!” Wreden as book travelerAdventures in the retail trade: Wreden the bookstore manager‘A big job to do during the next couple of years’: Wreden on committees‘An invaluable member of this organization’: Wreden as editorWreden and Russophone cultural networks Conclusion: Greeting ghosts 3. To Live As We Wish: Nicholas Wreden as TranslatorIntroduction: ‘a staggering amount’Soviet sex crime: The reception of Dog Lane on both sides of the Pacific ‘Gremlins in their Kremlins’: The Fifth Seal scandalGazdanov and The Specter of Alexander WolfConclusion4. I’ll Never Go Back: Russian-Americans in Translation and PublishingIntroduction: A constellation of translatorsBoris Brasol: ‘a red rag to all Jewish readers’John Cournos: ‘unaccountable predilections’A World May End: Irina Skariatina‘An Unfortunate Case of Versatility’: The adventures of Bernard Guilbert Guerney ‘I Think Every Good American Should Have A Book’: Bookstore owner and publisher“I hope the nail on your big toe dies of small pox”: Guerney’s career as translator and anthologist‘Kid Pasternak’ and the ‘Zhivago job’Conclusion5. For Thee The Best: Ardis, and a Different Kind of ArdorIntroduction: On the Soviet literary frontThe foundation of ArdisProbably the greatest poets of the century: the translation of Mandel’shtam, Brodsky, and SokolovCarl Proffer: ‘On the whole, with accuracy’A “complex phenomenon”: Ardis and its achievementsConclusion: Wheelchair basketballConclusion: Through the Years Two deathsIndex

This book is an important contribution to the field of translator studies and to the history of the translation and reception of Russian literature in the United States from the Civil War through the halcyon days of Ardis Publishers ... Thoroughly researched and vividly written.

Muireann Maguire is Professor in Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of Stalin's Ghosts: Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Language (2021), and co-editor of Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context (forthcoming, 2024) and Reading Backwards: An Advance Retrospective on Russian Literature (2021). She is also an active freelance translator from Russian to English.

• List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsNotes on Transliteration, Citation, and ReferencingIntroduction: Russian and American Literature in the Twentieth Century Introduction: Fraternal twins Methodology: Translator studies Introducing Nicholas Wreden ‘Gorki at Coney Island’: A critical overview ‘A Great Treasure’: Russian literature as intellectual and aesthetic capitalConclusion1. The Taming of the Arts: Publishing Russian Literature in America to 1935 ‘The great Autocracy and the great Republic’The earliest American translators: Schuyler and his successors Schuyler’s translations: ‘More Or Less Clumsily Englished’‘Fragments of a foreign feast’: Translation at the turn of the nineteenth century Hapgood and Dole: ‘Cobbling Extraordinary’Hapgood and Gorky: ‘rather strong meat’Aline Delano and Korolenko: ‘comparatively, no sense of humor’Thomas Seltzer: ‘a tiny Jew, but trustworthy’Conclusion: Ram them!2. Unmaking A Russian: The Rise of Nicholas Wreden Unmaking a Russian, Making an American “Go Into The Book Business!” Wreden as book travelerAdventures in the retail trade: Wreden the bookstore manager‘A big job to do during the next couple of years’: Wreden on committees‘An invaluable member of this organization’: Wreden as editorWreden and Russophone cultural networks Conclusion: Greeting ghosts 3. To Live As We Wish: Nicholas Wreden as TranslatorIntroduction: ‘a staggering amount’Soviet sex crime: The reception of Dog Lane on both sides of the Pacific ‘Gremlins in their Kremlins’: The Fifth Seal scandalGazdanov and The Specter of Alexander WolfConclusion4. I’ll Never Go Back: Russian-Americans in Translation and PublishingIntroduction: A constellation of translatorsBoris Brasol: ‘a red rag to all Jewish readers’John Cournos: ‘unaccountable predilections’A World May End: Irina Skariatina‘An Unfortunate Case of Versatility’: The adventures of Bernard Guilbert Guerney ‘I Think Every Good American Should Have A Book’: Bookstore owner and publisher“I hope the nail on your big toe dies of small pox”: Guerney’s career as translator and anthologist‘Kid Pasternak’ and the ‘Zhivago job’Conclusion5. For Thee The Best: Ardis, and a Different Kind of ArdorIntroduction: On the Soviet literary frontThe foundation of ArdisProbably the greatest poets of the century: the translation of Mandel’shtam, Brodsky, and SokolovCarl Proffer: ‘On the whole, with accuracy’A “complex phenomenon”: Ardis and its achievementsConclusion: Wheelchair basketballConclusion: Through the Years Two deathsIndex

This book is an important contribution to the field of translator studies and to the history of the translation and reception of Russian literature in the United States from the Civil War through the halcyon days of Ardis Publishers ... Thoroughly researched and vividly written.