Translation Reviews

Download PDF

We ask that when reviewing a translation, you pay special attention to the labor of the translator and the quality of the translation. Although you may not have access to the text in its original language, we would appreciate comments that you can offer on any scholarly apparatus provided (or not provided) by the translator (such as a note or glossary), the literary or artistic quality of the translation language, the value of having this particular text translated, or other such aspects of the translator’s work. For information on the importance that Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature puts on this work, see Laura Stevens’s preface to Vol. 30, No. 1: utulsa.edu/tswl/preface/preface-spring-2011-vol-30-no-1. We would be grateful if criticisms were made diplomatically.

We ask that reviews be two to four typewritten, double-spaced pages (600-1200 words) in length.

We ask that reviews be two to four typewritten, double-spaced pages (600-1200 words) in length.

  • CHRISTINA ROSSETTI: A DIVIDED LIFE, by Georgina Battiscombe. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1981. 253 pp. $30.00 cloth; $16.95 paperback

If there is just one edition of the book, then the material need not be mentioned. If there is an electronic version of the book, please list that price as well (e.g. “$16.99 ebook”).

For quotes from the book being reviewed, include a parenthetical page number at the end of the sentence. Please avoid citing other sources, but if need be, give complete citations, including page numbers, in an endnote. We follow The Chicago Manual of Style:

  • ¹ See, for example, Edward Said, “Reflections on American ‘Left’ Literary Criticism,” in The World, the Text, and the Critic (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983), 158-77.

Your name and college/university affiliation should appear at the end of the review and should be aligned with the right margin of the page.

Please send your review as a Word document email attachment to tswl@utulsa.edu directed to Book Review Editor. We ask that you send your review within three months. Thank you for your time and consideration in writing for Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature.