Victorian language translation

Over the years that the Victorian Web has been in existence readers have translated small portions of it into other languages. The links below will take you to the translations, copies of which are on this site.

French

Thus far most of the documents translated into French concern John Ruskin, and they include the Oxford Past Masters Ruskin, thanks to Laurence Constanty-Roussillo, Béatrice Laurent, and Pascal Debout. Vanessa Ly created a French version of “Representations of women.”

Czech

Andrey Fomin translated Diane Greco’s “The Wave Theory of Light” as “Vlnové teorie světla, ” which he published on Science Blog.

Romanian

Alexander Ovsov's created an untitled translation of “Credits: Who Created The Victorian Web?, ” which he published on Web Hosting Geeks.

Spanish

Asun López-Varela Azcárate, of the Department of Filolog’a Inglesa II, Facultad de Filolog’a Universidad Complutense Madrid, conceived, organized, and directs the translation of the Victorian Web into Spanish, which thus far contains thousands of documents. More than four dozen volunteer translators have participated in the project, sending their translations to Professor López-Varela, who edits them and forwards them to the webmaster, who formats and links them. These volunteers have translated most of the material about Victorian authors.

Dr. Montserrat Martínez García, who created a Spanish version of the entire large section, “Religion in England, ” also translated The Oxford “Past Masters” Ruskin as well as chapters from The Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Ruskin, Elegant Jeremiahs, and Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows; Biblical Typology in Victorian Literature, Art, and Thought, Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories. She and other translators have provided Spanish versions of materials in the site’s architecture, illustration, sculpture, gender matters, history, and other sections.

Ukrainian

Vlad Brown translated “What is the Victorian Web?” but it seesm no longer to be online. If the translator sends it to me, I'll add it to this section of the site.