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In Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects, fourteen scholars turn to the archives to challenge the way the history of modern encyclopedism has long been told. Rather than emphasizing successful publications and famous compilers, they explore encyclopedic enterprises that somehow failed. With a combined attention to script, print, and digital cultures, the volume highlights the many challenges facing those who have pursued complete knowledge in the past three hundred years. By introducing the concepts of stranded and strandedness, it also provides an analytical framework for approaching aspects often overlooked in histories of encyclopedias, books, and learning: the unpublished, the unfinished, the incomplete, the unsuccessfully disseminated, and the no-longer-updated. By examining these aspects in a new and original way, this book will be of value to anyone interested in the history of encyclopedism and lexicography, the history of knowledge, language, and ideas, and the history of books, writing, translating, and publishing. Chapters 1 and 4 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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Author:   Linn Holmberg ,  Maria Simonsen
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9783030643027

ISBN 10:   3030643026
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   19 February 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Why Explore Stranded Encyclopedias?, Linn Holmberg.- 2. Stranding in the Encyclopedie: The Case of Samuel Formey's Philosophical Dictionary, 1742-1747, Annelie Grosse.- 3 (Re)Inventing a New Economic Encyclopedia: The Stranding of the Abbe Morellet's Ambitious Nouveau dictionnaire de commerce (1769), Hans-Jurgen Lusebrink.- 4. Stranded Encyclopedias in Eighteenth-Century Sweden: Exploring the Rise of Alphabetical Encyclopedism, Linn Holmberg.- 5. Failure to Launch: Stranded Geographies in Italy and the Dizionario di geografica (1797), Clorinda Donato.- 6. Stranded Encyclopedic Medical Dictionaries in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spain, Bertha Gutierrez-Rodilla & Carmen Quijada-Diez.- 7. The Brazilian Encyclopedia: A Stranded Dream, Ana Maria Alfonso-Goldfarb, Marcia H. M. Ferraz, Elaine Pereira de Souza, & Silvia Waisse.- 8. Stranded in Time: Andrew Clark and the Language of World War I, Lynda Mugglestone.- 9. A Successfully Stranded Translator's Dictionary: Arnold Lissance's Underappreciated Attempt to Create the Perfect Resource for Translators, Stefanie Kremmel & Marija Ivanovic.- 10. The Rise and Fall of Danish Encyclopedias, 1891-2017, Maria Simonsen.

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Linn Holmberg is a Pro Futura Scientia fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden, and a researcher and teacher in History of Science and Ideas at Stockholm University, Sweden. She is the author of the award-winning dissertation The Forgotten Encyclopedia (2014) and the book The Maurists’ Unfinished Encyclopedia (2017). Maria Simonsen is a senior researcher and teacher in Book History and History of Knowledge at Aalborg University, Denmark. She has published widely on the history of Scandinavian encyclopedias and is the author of the award-winning Den skandinaviske encyklopædi (2016).

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