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The Terror of Translation: Ruins of the Translatio in The Castle Of Otranto and Vathek
- Studies in the Fantastic
- University of Tampa Press
- Number 3, Winter 2015/Spring 2016
- pp. 3-22
- 10.1353/sif.2016.0003
- Article
- Additional Information
This essay examines pseudo-translation in Walpole’s Castle of Otranto and Beckford’s Vathek as both a literary trope and a reflection of cultural anxieties regarding translatability and nationalism.