Retranslation through the Centuries

Making a contribution to the still under-researched translation history of Verne’s Extraordinary Journeys , this book examines the causes of a selection of renderings from French into English of the 1873 Jules Verne novel Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours ( Around the World in Eighty Days ). This study integrates a number of methodologies in order to offer a comprehensive explanation of translation outcomes. It presents a diachronic investigation of the multiple interacting translation cau