Russian Translations of Nineteenth-Century English Fiction

Abstract

I~~~~~~~~~~ T HAS LONG been known that the major English novelists of the nineteenth century were widely translated and frequently imitated in Russia. Ernest J. Simmons has told us of the influence of Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, and Mrs. Radcliffe in determining the course of Russian fiction.' and there have been others to corroborate his account of the tremendous popularity of Scott in the first half of the nineteenth century.2 There is ample evidence, also, of the Russian acclaim of Dickens, who has been perhaps as widely read in Moscow and Leningrad as in London and New York.3 What