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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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

Donato, Clorinda, editor.

Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen, editor.

Series:

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series

The UCLA Clark Memorial Library series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Encyclopedias and dictionaries--History and criticism.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries--Translations.

Translating and interpreting--History.

Translating and interpreting.

History.

Learning and scholarship--History.

Learning and scholarship.

Translations.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Savary des Bruslons' Dictionnaire universel de commerce. Translations and Adaptations / Hans-Jurgen Lusebrink

2. The Cultural and Esthetic Challenges of Translating English and German Articles on the Performing Arts in French Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias / Alain Cernuschi

3. Camels in the Alps? Translation, Transfer, and Adaptation in Dutch Encyclopedias and Their European Predecessors / Ina Ulrike Paul

4. Long Haul: Blusse's Complete Description of Trades and Occupations / Arianne Baggerman

5. Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in the Encyclopedie methodique / Kathleen Hardesty Doig

6. Branding Knowledge through Translation in Late Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias: Italy, Spain, and Switzerland / Clorinda Donato

7. The Migration of Beccaria's Penal Ideas in Encyclopedic Compilations (1770

1789) / Luigi Delia

8. Translating Liberalism: Brockhaus's Conversations-Lexikon and the Development of an International European Constitutional Discourse / Iwan-Michelangelo D'Aprile

9. Two French Konversationslexika of the 1830s and 1840s: The Dictionnaire de la conversation et de la lecture and the Encyclopedie des gens du monde / Jeff Loveland

10. Compiling Based on Translations: Notes on Raynal's and Diderot's Work on the Histoire des deux Indes / Susanne Greilich

11. Encyclopedic Writing / Ulrich Johannes Schneider

12. Barbarians in the Archive: Transfer of Knowledge of the Colonial Other in the Encyclopedie of Diderot and d'Alembert / Karen Struve

13. The Last Encyclopedie / Clorinda Donato.

Notes:

"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."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Translation and transfer of knowledge in encyclopedic compilations, 1680-1830.

ISBN:

1487508905

9781487508906

OCLC:

1223012753

Publisher Number:

99989246650