Translation and transfer of knowledge in encyclopedic compilations, 1680-1830 /

"From its modern origins in seventeenth-century France, encyclopedic compilations met the need for the dissemination of information in a more flexible format, one that eschewed the limits of previous centuries of erudition. The rise of vernacular languages dovetailed with the demand for informa...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Donato, Clorinda (Editor), Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021.
Series:	UCLA Clark Memorial Library series.
Subjects:	Encyclopedias and dictionaries > History and criticism. Translating and interpreting > History. Learning and scholarship > History. Savoir et érudition > Histoire. Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century. Literary Criticism / European / German. Literary Criticism / European / French. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. Learning and scholarship. Translating and interpreting. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Savary Des Brulons' Dictionnaire Universel du Commerce: Translations and Adaptations / Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink
The Cultural and Esthetic Challenges of Translating English and German Articles on the Performing Arts in French Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias / Alain Cernuschi
Camels in the Alps : Translations, Transfer, and Adoption Processes in Dutch Encyclopedias / Ina U. Paul
Long Haul : The Troublesome Publication of the First Dutch Complete Description of Trades and Occupations (1788-1820) / Arianne Baggerman
Translations in the Encyclopédie méthodique / Kathleen Hardesty Doig
Branding Knowledge through Transfer and Translation : The Encyclopédie méthodique in Italy and Spain / Clorinda Donato
The Migration of Beccaria's Penal Ideas in Encyclopedic Compilations (1770-1789) / Luigi Delia
Transfer and Popularization of Knowledge : Brockhaus' Conversations-Lexicon in the Early Nineteenth Century / Iwan-Michelangelo D'Aprile
Two French Konversationslexika of the 1830s and 1840s : The Dictionnaire de la conversation et de la lecture and the Encyclopédie des gens du monde / Jeff Loveland
Compiling Based on Translations : Notes on Raynal's and Diderot's Work on the Histoire des deux Indes / Susan Greilich
Johann Heinrich Zedler and the Challenge of Creating a Proper Encyclopedic Article in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Germany / Ulrich Schneider
Barbarians in the Archive : Transfers of Knowledge of the Colonial Other in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert / Karen Struve
The Last Encyclopédie / Arianne Baggermann and Clorinda Donato.