Invading the American Canon Translators of Russian Literary Fiction, 1863-1984

List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration, Citation, and Referencing
Introduction: Russian and American Literature in the Twentieth Century
Introduction: Fraternal twins
Methodology: Translator studies
Introducing Nicholas Wreden
'Gorki at Coney Island': A critical overview
'A Great Treasure': Russian literature as intellectual and aesthetic capital
Conclusion
1. The Taming of the Arts: Publishing Russian Literature in America to 1935
'The great Autocracy and the great Republic'
The earliest American translators: Schuyler and his successors
Schuyler's translations: 'More Or Less Clumsily Englished'
'Fragments of a foreign feast': Translation at the turn of the nineteenth century
Hapgood and Dole: 'Cobbling Extraordinary'
Hapgood and Gorky: 'rather strong meat'
Aline Delano and Korolenko: 'comparatively, no sense of humor'
Thomas Seltzer: 'a tiny Jew, but trustworthy'
Conclusion: Ram them!
2. Unmaking A Russian: The Rise of Nicholas Wreden
Unmaking a Russian, Making an American
"Go Into The Book Business!" Wreden as book traveler
Adventures in the retail trade: Wreden the bookstore manager
'A big job to do during the next couple of years': Wreden on committees
'An invaluable member of this organization': Wreden as editor
Wreden and Russophone cultural networks
Conclusion: Greeting ghosts
3. To Live As We Wish: Nicholas Wreden as Translator
Introduction: 'a staggering amount'
Soviet sex crime: The reception of Dog Lane on both sides of the Pacific
'Gremlins in their Kremlins': The Fifth Seal scandal
Gazdanov and The Specter of Alexander Wolf
Conclusion
4. I'll Never Go Back: Russian-Americans in Translation and Publishing
Introduction: A constellation of translators
Boris Brasol: 'a red rag to all Jewish readers'
John Cournos: 'unaccountable predilections'
A World May End: Irina Skariatina
'An Unfortunate Case of Versatility': The adventures of Bernard Guilbert Guerney
'I Think Every Good American Should Have A Book': Bookstore owner and publisher
"I hope the nail on your big toe dies of small pox": Guerney's career as translator and anthologist
'Kid Pasternak' and the 'Zhivago job'
Conclusion
5. For Thee The Best: Ardis, and a Different Kind of Ardor
Introduction: On the Soviet literary front
The foundation of Ardis
Probably the greatest poets of the century: the translation of Mandel'shtam, Brodsky, and Sokolov
Carl Proffer: 'On the whole, with accuracy'
A "complex phenomenon": Ardis and its achievements
Conclusion: Wheelchair basketball
Conclusion: Through the Years
Two deaths

Index