BOOKSELLERS HOBBY-HORSE & THE
Zwaneveld, Agnes M.
A Bookseller's Hobby-Horse, and the Rhetoric of Translation" is a study of the first Dutch translation of "Tristram Shandy" (1759-67) as a product of and factor in the reception of Sterne's novel in the Netherlands, and as a specific manifestation of this reception: a derived text based on interpretation of the original. It took sixteen years for this translation to appear. Why was this so? And why did its publication (1776-79) prove unrewardi...