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Author Bubb, Alexander, 1985- author.

Title Asian classics on the Victorian bookshelf : flights of translation / Alexander Bubb
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2023
©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiii, 256 pages) : illustrations
Summary The interest among Victorian readers in classical literature from Asia has been greatly underestimated, and Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf explains the process whereby popular translations were written, published, distributed to bookshops and libraries, and ultimately consumed by readers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed February 19, 2024)
Subject Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Oriental literature -- Translations into English
Books and reading
Oriental literature
Library & information sciences / Museology.
Libraries and Museums.
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Translations
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191898433
0191898430
9780192636027
0192636022