Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations : : 1680-1830 /

Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations : : 1680-1830 / / Clorinda Donato, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink.

With a focus on the economic, social, and political impetus for producing monuments to knowledge, this volume recognizes the encyclopedic compilation as the quintessential tool of enlightenment knowledge transfer. From its modern origins in seventeenth-century France, encyclopedic compilations met t...

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Superior document:UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
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Donato, Clorinda
Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen
Place / Publishing House:[s.l.] : : University of Toronto Press,, 2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
Physical Description:1 online resource (375 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter one. The Savary des Bruslons' Dictionnaire universel de commerce: Translations and Adaptations
  • Chapter two. The Cultural and Esthetic Challenges of Translating English and German Articles on the Performing Arts in French Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias
  • Chapter three. Camels in the Alps? Translation, Transfer, and Adaptation in Dutch Encyclopedias and Their European Predecessors
  • Chapter four. Long Haul: Blussé's Complete Description of Trades and Occupations
  • Chapter five. Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in the Encyclopédie méthodique
  • Chapter six. Branding Knowledge through Translation in Late Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias: Italy, Spain, and Switzerland
  • Chapter seven. The Migration of Beccaria's Penal Ideas in Encyclopedic Compilations (1770-1789)
  • Chapter eight. Translating Liberalism: Brockhaus's Conversations-Lexikon and the Development of an International European Constitutional Discourse
  • Chapter nine. Two French Konversationslexika of the 1830s and 1840s: The Dictionnaire de la conversation et de la lecture and the Encyclopédie des gens du monde
  • Chapter ten. Compiling Based on Translations: Notes on Raynal's and Diderot's Work on the Histoire des deux Indes
  • Chapter eleven. Encyclopedic Writing
  • Chapter twelve. Barbarians in the Archive: Transfer of Knowledge of the Colonial Other in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert
  • Chapter thirteen. The Last Encyclopédie
  • Appendix. Cited Encyclopedias and Translations/Adaptations
  • Contributors
  • Index

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