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The Translator’s Invisibility

The Translator’s Invisibility provides a thorough and critical examination

of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day. It shows

how fluency prevailed over other translation strategies to shape the

canon of foreign literatures in English, and it interrogates the

ethnocentric and imperialist cultural consequences of the domestic

values that were simultaneously inscribed and masked in foreign texts

during this period.

In tracing the history of translation, Lawrence Venuti locates

alternative translation theories and practices which make it possible to

counter the strategy of fluency, aiming to communicate linguistic and

cultural differences instead of removing them. Using texts and

translations from Britain, America and Europe he elaborates the

theoretical and critical means by which translation can be studied and

practiced as a locus of difference, recovering and revising forgotten

translations to establish an alternative tradition.

Lawrence Venuti is Professor of English at Temple University,

Philadelphia, and has been a professional translator for the past fifteen

years. He is the editor of Rethinking Translation: Discourse, Subjectivity,

Ideology .

Translation Studies

General editors: Susan Bassnett and André Lefevere

In the same series:

Translation, Rewriting, and the Manipulation of Literary Fame

André Lefevere

Translation, Poetics and the Stage

Six French Hamlets

Romy Heylen

Translation/History/Culture

A Sourcebook

Edited by André Lefevere

Translation as Social Action

Russian and Bulgarian Perspectives

Edited and translated by Palma Zlateva

The Translator’s Invisibility

A History of Translation

Lawrence Venuti

London and New York

First published 1995

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.

reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,

mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter

invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any

information storage or retrieval system, without permission in

writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Venuti, Lawrence.

The Translator’s Invisibility: A History of Translation/Lawrence

Venuti.

p. cm.—(Translation studies)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Translating and interpreting—History. 2. English language—

Translating—History. I. Title. II. Series: Translation studies

(London, England)

P306.2.V46 1995

418' .02' 09–dc20

ISBN 0-203-36006-0 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-37262-X (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0-415-11537-X (hbk)

0-415-11538-8 (pbk)

94–6477

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