The Image of the Main Character in E. Bulwer-Lytton's Newgate Novel "Eugene Aram" and its Rendering in the Russian Translations of the XIX Century
The article deals with the problem of the Russian translations of E. Bulwer-Lytton's Newgate novel Eugene Aram made in the second half of the XIX century. The analysis reveals different approaches in rendering Newgate novel poetics explained by the opposite intentions of translators. On the one hand, one can observe the text simplification and its adaptation for the mass readers. On the other hand, (in D.V. Averkiev's translation) there is an attempt to convey the literary peculiarities of the foreign novel, its subject matter and poetics corresponding to the Russian literary process