{"product_id":"translation-and-transfer-of-knowledge-in-encyclopedic-compilations-16801830-9781487508906","title":"Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations 16801830","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The reviewed volume contains a rich bouquet of interesting contributions to contemporary encyclopedia research. These contributions show how encyclopedias can be approached from different disciplines and perspectives and how rich the results can be, not least in terms of knowledge transfer, translations, and national characteristics, even translation errors that have been spread.” -- Urs B, Leu, Zentralbibliothek Zürich * \u003cem\u003eH-France Review\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e“This collection is an outstanding addition to encyclopedia studies and to scholarship on the long eighteenth century, on the Enlightenment and early modernity, and on issues in cultural translation.” -- Larry W. Riggs, Butler University * \u003cem\u003eNew Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Clorinda Donato and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink   1. Savary Des Brulons’ Dictionnaire Universel du Commerce: Translations and Adaptations Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink   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: Translations, Transfer, and Adoption Processes in Dutch Encyclopedias Ina U. Paul   4. Long Haul: The Troublesome Publication of the First Dutch Complete Description of Trades and Occupations (1788–1820) Arianne Baggerman   5. Translations in the Encyclopédie méthodique Kathleen Hardesty Doig   6. Branding Knowledge through Transfer and Translation: The Encyclopédie méthodique in Italy and Spain Clorinda Donato   7. The Migration of Beccaria's Penal Ideas in Encyclopedic Compilations (1770–1789) Luigi Delia   8. Transfer and Popularization of Knowledge: Brockhaus’ Conversations-Lexicon in the Early Nineteenth Century Iwan-Michelangelo D’Aprile   9. 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   10. Compiling Based on Translations: Notes on Raynal's and Diderot's Work on the Histoire des deux Indes Susan Greilich   11. Johann Heinrich Zedler and the Challenge of Creating a Proper Encyclopedic Article in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Germany Ulrich Schneider   12. Barbarians in the Archive: Transfers of Knowledge of the Colonial Other in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert Karen Struve   13. The Last Encyclopédie Arianne Baggermann and Clorinda Donato","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187720839511,"sku":"9781487508906","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/translation-and-transfer-of-knowledge-in-encyclopedic-compilations-16801830-9781487508906","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}