Translation and Bildung: siting translation in nation-based anthologies

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article examines the effects of chronologization on translation in nineteenth-century nation-based anthologies, focusing on the work of two prolific anthologizers, the British John Bowring (1792–1872) and the American poet Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908). While Bowring anthologized the literatures of mostly Eastern European nations in the first half of the nineteenth century and Stedman anthologized US literature in the second half, both men worked within the framework of the monolingual nation-state, leading them to exclude translations, relegating them to the “infancy” of the national cultural as symbolizing dependency and foreign influence.