Flora Ross Amos

Flora Ross Amos is the scholar who developed Early Theories of Translation from doctoral research completed at Columbia University. Columbia University Press published the study in 1920 after its submission as a 1919 dissertation. Amos examines English thinking about translation from the medieval period into the seventeenth century. She organizes prefaces, critical statements, and translated works into a history of changing practice. Project Gutenberg preserves the monograph and identifies its academic origin. Google Books records the Columbia edition and its scope. The work gathers scattered comments by translators and treats them as evidence of evolving literary standards. Later scholarship still cites the study as an early sustained account of English translation theory. Amos left a carefully assembled historical argument connecting close reading, bibliography, and the emerging discipline of translation studies.