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Written in the Language of the Scottish Nation
History of Literary Translation into Scots
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Although much work has been published on certain aspects of translation into Scots, this timely book is the first comprehensive account of Scots translations from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. From the period before Gavin Douglas’s translation of the Aeneid to John Byrne’s recent adaptation of Gogol’s The Government Inspector, this survey argues that translation plays a central role in the development of literature in Scots, lending authority to the vernacular, and extending the stylistic range open to writers in Scots.