The Role of Translators in Children’s Literature Invisible Storytellers 1st edition by GILLIAN LATHEY ISBN 1136925740 9781136925740

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ISBN 10: 1136925740
ISBN 13: 9781136925740
Author: GILLIAN LATHEY

This book offers a historical analysis of key classical translated works for children, such as writings by Hans Christian Andersen and Grimms’ tales. Translations dominate the earliest history of texts written for children in English, and stories translated from other languages have continued to shape its course to the present day. Lathey traces the role of the translator and the impact of translations on the history of English-language children’s literature from the ninth century onwards. Discussions of popular texts in each era reveal fluctuations in the reception of translated children’s texts, as well as instances of cultural mediation by translators and editors. Abridgement, adaptation, and alteration by translators have often been viewed in a negative light, yet a closer examination of historical translators’ prefaces reveals a far more varied picture than that of faceless conduits or wilful censors. From William Caxton’s dedication of his translated History of Jason to young Prince Edward in 1477 (‘to thentent/he may begynne to lerne read Englissh’), to Edgar Taylor’s justification of the first translation into English of Grimms’ tales as a means of promoting children’s imaginations in an age of reason, translators have recorded in prefaces and other writings their didactic, religious, aesthetic, financial, and even political purposes for translating children’s texts.

The Role of Translators in Children’s Literature Invisible Storytellers 1st Table of contents:

Introduction

Invisible Storytellers

Translating for Children

Part One

Chapter One Didactic Translation: Religious Texts, Courtesy Books, Schoolbooks, and Political Persuasion

William Caxton as Translator

Translating Schoolmasters: Grammarians William Bullokar and John Brinsley, and the ‘Orbis Pictus’ of Charles Hoole

Sir Roger L’Estrange and Samuel Croxall: Polemical Translations of Aesop

Chapter Two Popular Fiction in Translation: The Child as Consumer of Romances and Fables in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods

The Child Reader of Translated Romances

Chapter Three Tales of the Marvellous 1690–1760: The Arabian Nights and the French Fairy Tale

The Arabian Nights

French Fairy Tales

Chapter Four Imagination, Reason, and Mapping the World 1750–1820

Arnaud Berquin’s ‘The Children’s Friend’: the Impact of English Versions

Mme de Genlis: Influential Educator

Mary Wollstonecraft: Ideological Translation

Chapter Five Religious Stories and the Artful Fairy Tale in the Nineteenth Century

Edgar Taylor: First Translator of Grimms’ Tales into English

Taylor and the Grimms: The ‘Kleine Ausgabe’

Later Translations of Grimms’ Tales

Chapter Six The Translating Woman: Assertive Professional or Invisible Storyteller

Mary Howitt, Translator of Hans Christian Andersen

Andrew Lang’s Invisible Storytellers

The Legacy of Folk- and Fairy-tale Translators

Chapter Seven Summary of Part One: Translation Practices and the Child Audience

Anonymity, Self-presentation, and Professional Translation

Relay Translation

Translation Strategies in Early Translations

Faithfulness, Fluency, and Contextual Adaptation

The Translator as Mediator

Part Two

Part Two Introduction

Chapter Eight Into the Twentieth Century: Classics, the Folk Tale, and Internationalism 1870–1940

The Late Nineteenth Century: International Classics

Arthur Ransome: The Mediation of Russian Folk Tales for the Child Reader

The 1930s: Internationalism and Translation Practices in the UK and US

Chapter Nine Rewarding Translation for Children: Landmark Translations from 1940 and the Batchelder and Marsh Awards

Publishing Policies and Landmarks in Translated Children’s Fiction

The Batchelder and Marsh Awards

Publishers’ Responses

Chapter Ten Retranslation in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: For Children or Adults?

Child-friendly Retranslation: Wanda Gág’s Versions of Grimms’ Tales

The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen: New Translations for Old

‘Pinocchio’ and Audience Ambivalence: A Case Study

The Retranslation of Children’s Classics: An Erratic Phenomenon

Chapter Eleven Translators’ Voices

Wordsmiths and Performers: Patricia Crampton, Anthea Bell, and Sarah Ardizzone

Working Methods and Translation Strategies

Chapter Twelve From Anonymity to Global Marketing: The Role of Translators in Children’s Literature

TheTranslator as Mediator

Invisibility, Fluency, and the Child Reader

Future Research

Translation for Children—A Professional Specialism in the Global Future?

Notes

Bibliography

Translations and Other Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Index

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