A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Tauchnitz for Translators. The Circulation of English-language Literature in Finland
Authors: Outi Paloposki
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIV PRESS
Publication year: 2019
Journal: Comparative Critical Studies
Journal name in source: COMPARATIVE CRITICAL STUDIES
Journal acronym: COMP CRIT STUD
Volume: 16
Issue: 2-3
First page : 161
Last page: 179
Number of pages: 19
ISSN: 1744-1854
eISSN: 1750-0109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2019.0325
Abstract
The article looks at book production and circulation from the point of view of translators, who, as purchasers and readers of foreign-language books, are an important mediating force in the selection of literature for translation. Taking the German publisher Tauchnitz's series 'Collection of British Authors' and its circulation in Finland in the nineteenth and early twentieth century as a case in point, the article argues that the increased availability of English-language books facilitated the acquiring and honing of translators' language skills and gradually diminished the need for indirect translating. Book history and translation studies meet here in an examination of the role of the Collection in Finnish translators' work.
The article looks at book production and circulation from the point of view of translators, who, as purchasers and readers of foreign-language books, are an important mediating force in the selection of literature for translation. Taking the German publisher Tauchnitz's series 'Collection of British Authors' and its circulation in Finland in the nineteenth and early twentieth century as a case in point, the article argues that the increased availability of English-language books facilitated the acquiring and honing of translators' language skills and gradually diminished the need for indirect translating. Book history and translation studies meet here in an examination of the role of the Collection in Finnish translators' work.
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