Research Catalog

Title

Translation and transfer of knowledge in encyclopedic compilations, 1680-1830 / edited by Clorinda Donato and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink.

Publication

• Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Donato, Clorinda
• Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen
• University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies.

Description

vi, 364 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 information in every sector, sparking competition among nations to establish the encyclopedic 'paper empires' that became symbols of power and potential. In this edited collection, Clorinda Donato and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink evaluate the long-overlooked phenomenon of knowledge creation and transfer that occurred in hundreds of translated encyclopedic compilations over the long eighteenth century. Analysing multiple instances of translated compilations, this book expands into the vast realm of the multilingual, encyclopedic compilation, the most tangible proof of the global enlightenment. Through the presentation of an extensive corpus of translated compilations, it argues that the true site of knowledge transfer resided in the transnational movement of ideas exemplified by these compendia. The encyclopedia came to represent the aspiring nation as a viable economic and political player on the world stage; the capability to tell knowledge through culture became the hallmark of a nation's cultural capital, symbolic of its might and mapping the how, why, and where of the global eighteenth century."--

Series Statement

The UCLA Clark Memorial Library series

Uniform Title

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series.

Subject

• Encyclopedias and dictionaries > History and criticism
• Encyclopedias and dictionaries > Translations
• Translating and interpreting > History
• Learning and scholarship > History
• Encyclopedias and dictionaries
• Learning and scholarship
• Translating and interpreting

Genre/Form

• Translations.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Note

• "Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth Century Studies and the William Andres Clark Memorial Library."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic formats.

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.

Call Number

JFE 22-1679

ISBN

• 1487508905
• 9781487508906

OCLC

1223012753

Title

Translation and transfer of knowledge in encyclopedic compilations, 1680-1830 / edited by Clorinda Donato and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink.

Publisher

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The UCLA Clark Memorial Library series

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic formats.

Added Author

Donato, Clorinda, editor.

Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen, editor.

University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies.

Other Form:

Online version: Translation and transfer of knowledge in encyclopedic compilations, 1680-1830. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021 1487539274 9781487539276 (OCoLC)1237829497

Research Call Number

JFE 22-1679