Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. De Quincey and Translation: A Timeline viii
5. Abbreviations x
6. Introduction: Dark Interpreter 1
7. Chapter 1 [I] Wrote This: Authorship, Translatorship 14
8. Chapter 2 How to Write English: The Transnationalism of a National Style 56
9. Chapter 3 Translating (against) Kant: A Translator’s Idealism 99
10. Chapter 4 The Ghost of Cutler’s Stockings: The Idea of Translation 147
11. Coda: A Yearning for Translation 179
12. Bibliography 187
13. Index 198