Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects (1st ed. 2021) (New Directions in Book History)

Synopsis

In Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects, fourteen scholars turn to the archives to challenge the way the history of modern encyclopedism has long been told.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analytical framework for approaching aspects often overlooked in histories of encyclopedias, books, and learning: the unpublished, the unfinished, the incomplete, the unsuccessfully disseminated, and the no-longer-updated.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.

Copyright:

2021

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783030643003

Related ISBNs:

9783030642990

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Date of Addition:

03/20/21

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The Editor

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No

Language:

English

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Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Communication

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Bookshare Staff

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Edited by:

Linn Holmberg

Edited by:

Maria Simonsen