Academy dictionaries 1600-1800 / John Considine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Considine, John (John P.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lexicography--Europe--History--17th century.

Lexicography.

Lexicography--Europe--History--18th century.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries--Europe--History and criticism.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Learned institutions and societies--Europe--History--17th century.

Learned institutions and societies.

Learned institutions and societies--Europe--History--18th century.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 259 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Summary:

"This is the first unified history of the large, prestigious dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled in academies, which set out to glorify living European languages. The tradition began with the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (1612) in Florence and the Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (1694) in Paris, and spread across Europe - to Germany, Spain, England, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Russia - in the eighteenth century, engaging students of language as diverse as Leibniz, Samuel Johnson, and Catherine the Great. All the major academy and academy-style dictionaries of the period up to 1800, published and unpublished, are discussed in a single narrative, bridging national and linguistic boundaries, to offer a history of lexicography on a European scale. Like John Considine's Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2008), this study treats dictionaries both as physical books and as ambitious works of the human imagination"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. The beginnings of the academy tradition: the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca

3. The making of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise, and its seventeenth-century rivals

4. The Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise from its publication to the end of the eighteenth century

5. The Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft and its offshoots in Germany and Denmark from the 1640s to the mid eighteenth century

6. The academy tradition from the seventeenth century to 1750: England, Brandenburg/Prussia, and Spain

7. Samuel Johnson and Johann Christoph Adelung

8. The continuing academy tradition from 1751 to 1800: the United Provinces, Russia, Portugal, Denmark, and Sweden

9. Afterword: the year 1800 as a turning point.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107071124

1107071127

OCLC:

871343749

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