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Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700-2000 - Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700-2000 - Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: New Directions in Book History
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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Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects, fourteen scholars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histories of encyclopedias, books, and learning: the unpublished,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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