Gillian Lathey
Biographic Data
| ID | 2570561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gillian Lathey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gillian |
| FAMILY NAME | Lathey |
| SIGNATURE | LATHEY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Roehampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2202-1844 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture
Nostalgia, novelty and innovation
It was a stroke of genius that caused Charles Baldwyn, publisher of the first English translation of tales by the Grimm Brothers, to hire satirical cartoonist George Cruikshank as illustrator for the publication. Cruikshank’s expressive etchings so impressed the Grimms that they decided to publish their own illustrated “small edition” in Germany. Thus the first step was taken towards the international commodification of the tales as illustrated c…
Rereading Childhood Books
Places to Which I Have Never Been’
Children’s booksellers began to distil from translations of Cervantes’ novel a core set of episodes for young readers in the late eighteenth century, although earlier chapbook versions had doubtless fallen into the hands of literate children. Quixote quickly became an established figure in the English-language children’s canon; Charles Dickens was not alone in retaining a strong visual memory of his childhood reading of the would-be knight’s illu…
Time, Narrative Intimacy and the Child
The British version of Jean de Brunhoff's Histoire de Babar is a striking example of the transition from the present to the past tense in the translation of children's texts into English. With reference to theories of narrative time, this paper invites speculation on the impact of such a tense shift on the present-tense qualities of the original, on the performance of a shared reading by child and adult and, finally, on the relevance of the young…
Time, Narrative Intimacy and the Child
The British version of Jean de Brunhoff's Histoire de Babar is a striking example of the transition from the present to the past tense in the translation of children's texts into English. With reference to theories of narrative time, this paper invites speculation on the impact of such a tense shift on the present-tense qualities of the original, on the performance of a shared reading by child and adult and, finally, on the relevance of the young…
Time, Narrative Intimacy and the Child
The British version of Jean de Brunhoff's Histoire de Babar is a striking example of the transition from the present to the past tense in the translation of children's texts into English. With reference to theories of narrative time, this paper invites speculation on the impact of such a tense shift on the present-tense qualities of the original, on the performance of a shared reading by child and adult and, finally, on the relevance of the young…
Places to Which I Have Never Been’
Children’s booksellers began to distil from translations of Cervantes’ novel a core set of episodes for young readers in the late eighteenth century, although earlier chapbook versions had doubtless fallen into the hands of literate children. Quixote quickly became an established figure in the English-language children’s canon; Charles Dickens was not alone in retaining a strong visual memory of his childhood reading of the would-be knight’s illu…
Rereading Childhood Books
Nostalgia, novelty and innovation
It was a stroke of genius that caused Charles Baldwyn, publisher of the first English translation of tales by the Grimm Brothers, to hire satirical cartoonist George Cruikshank as illustrator for the publication. Cruikshank’s expressive etchings so impressed the Grimms that they decided to publish their own illustrated “small edition” in Germany. Thus the first step was taken towards the international commodification of the tales as illustrated c…
British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture
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