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Paloposki, Outi. 2019. Tauchnitz for Translators: the circulation of English-language literature in Finland. In Colombo, Alice, Niall Ó Ciosáin and Anne O’Connor, eds. Translation meets Book History: intersections: 1700-1950. Special issue of Comparative Critical Studies. The journal of the British Comparative Literature Association 16 (2-3): 161–179.
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English
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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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