Notable encyclopedias of the late eighteenth century : eleven successors of the Encyclopédie

著者

• Kafker, Frank A.
• Voltaire Foundation

書誌事項

Notable encyclopedias of the late eighteenth century : eleven successors of the Encyclopédie

edited by Frank A. Kafker

（Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century / edited by Theodore Besterman, 315）

Voltaire Foundation, 1994

タイトル別名

Notable encyclopedias of the late 18th century

注記

Includes bibliographies and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

General encyclopedias illuminate the culture of an era; yet, except for the first edition of the Encyclopedie, those launched from 1750 to 1800 have received far less attention than the novels, plays, poems, newspapers, and pamphlets of the period. This void in our knowledge is all the more regrettable since the compilation of encyclopedias thrived during the late eighteenth century. In the present work a group of scholars examine eleven notable general encyclopedias of the period, paying particular attention to their publishing history, editing, prose style, political and religious views, and contents as books of knowledge. Each of these works sheds light on a specific time and place as well as the encyclopedia genre. They were published in cities and towns in France, Switzerland, Italy, Scotland, England, the United States, Germany, and Russia, and they reveal much about the intellectual, religious, political, economic, and social life of their respective regions, as well as the extent of the reception and diffusion of the Enlightenment. The new information about these eleven encyclopedias provides the basis for an epilogue that discusses their relationship to Diderot and d'Alembert's renowned Encyclopedie and the extent of that work's influence on the eighteenth-century encyclopedic tradition. This book is designed as a companion to Notable Encyclopedias of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: nine predecessors of the 'Encyclopedie', edited by Frank A. Kafker, SVEC 194 (1981).

目次

Preface, Frank A. Kafker I. French-language successors 1. Arnold Miller, The last edition of the Dictionnaire de Trevoux 2. Madeleine F. Morris, The Tuscan editions of the Encyclopedie 3. Kathleen Hardesty Doig, The Yverdon Encyclopedie 4. Kathleen Hardesty Doig, The quarto and octavo editions of the Encyclopedie II. English-language successors 5. Frank A. Kafker, William Smellie's edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 6. Stephan Werner, Abraham Rees's eighteenth-century Cyclopaedia 7. Robert D. Arner, Thomas Dobson's American edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica III. Other European-language successors 8. Willi Goetschel, Catriona Macleod, and Emery Snyder, The Deutsche Encyclopadie 9. Joseph H. Denny and Paul M. Mitchell, Russian translations of the Encyclopedie IV. Epilogue 10. Frank A. Kafker, The influence of the Encyclopedie on the eighteenth-century encyclopedic tradition Appendix: guidelines Notes on contributors Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA23480292
• ISBN:
  • 0729404676
• LCCN: 95171054
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Oxford
• ページ数/冊数: v, 424 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • NDC9 : 030.2
  • LCC : PQ2105.A2
  • LCC : AE1
  • DC20 : 030.9
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Encyclopédie -- History
  • LCSH : Learning and scholarship -- History -- 18th century
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA0040253X