Emer O’Sullivan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Emer O’Sullivan plays a role.
Articles
2023 Chapter 10. Make it Irish!: Reprints and hibernicizations for (young) Irish readers in eighteenth-century Dublin Transnational Books for Children 1750-1900: Producers, consumers, encounters, Appel, Charlotte, Nina Christensen and M.O. Grenby (eds.), pp. 226–249 | Chapter
Before the British Copyright Act of 1710 was extended to Ireland in 1801, its book market was dominated by British works, reprinted by Irish booksellers. Rather than being mere copies of the original, many of these were hibernicized, or made Irish. This chapter addresses the transnational… read more
2016 Englishness in German translations of Alice in Wonderland Interconnecting Translation Studies and Imagology, van Doorslaer, Luc, Peter Flynn and Joep Leerssen (eds.), pp. 87–107 | Article
In order to explain away the peculiarity of Alice in Wonderland to a German audience, peritexts in many translations construct nonsense, the author
Dodgson/Carroll and the novel itself as particularly English phenomena. Examining forewords and afterwords and some German translations, especially… read more
2013 Lathey, Gillian. 2010. The role of translators in children’s literature. Invisible storytellers Target 25:2, pp. 281–285 | Review