Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects (New Directions in Book History)

Acknowledgments
Praise for Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Part I Introduction
1 Why Explore Stranded Encyclopedias?
	Encyclopedia: A Brief Historical Note on Definitions
	Earlier Research on Encyclopedic Practice
	New Roads Ahead
	The Notions of Stranded and Strandedness
	Synopsis of Chapters
	References
Part II Stranded Encyclopedias in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
2 Stranding in the Encyclopédie: The Case of Samuel Formey’s Philosophical Dictionary, 1742–1747
	The Concept and Aims of Formey’s Dictionnaire Philosophique
	The Abandonment and Stranding of the Dictionnaire Philosophique
	Conclusions
	References
3 (Re)Inventing a New Economic Encyclopedia: The Stranding of the Abbé Morellet’s Ambitious Nouveau Dictionnaire de Commerce (1769)
	Enlightened Pragmatism and Encyclopedic Visions: Morellet’s Intellectual Career
	Encyclopedic Ambitions: Morellet’s Prospectus
	Failure and Partial Survival of a Stranded Encyclopedia
	References
4 Stranded Encyclopedias in Eighteenth-Century Sweden: Exploring the Rise of Alphabetical Encyclopedism
	Previous Research and Analytical Terminology
	Methods, Sources, and the Structure of the Study
	To Begin with: An Overview of Early Modern Sweden
	Dictionary Discourse in Lärda Tidningar (1745–1773)
	Glimpses of Stranded Projects
		A Rural Lexicon in Åbo
		A Factual Dictionary of Seamanship in Karlskrona
		An Economical “Dictionnaire” in Stockholm
	Encyclopedic Activities in the Bureau of Mines
		A Factual Dictionary of Mining and Metallurgy
	Summary and Conclusions
	References
5 Failure to Launch: Stranded Geographies in Italy and the Dizionario di geografia (1797)
	Italy’s Encyclopedism
	Il Dizionario geografia moderna composto per l’Enciclopedia metodica (1797)
	Yielding to Pressure for an Italian-Language Edition
	Conclusions
	References
6 Stranded Encyclopedic Medical Dictionaries in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spain
	The Lexicographical Scenario in the Medical Field c. 1700–1900
	Francisco Suárez de Ribera’s Clave médico-chirurgica universal y diccionario médico
	Joaquín de Villalba’s Diccionario de Higiene y Economía rural veterinaria
	Two Stranded Translations into Spanish
	Diccionario de ciencias médicas
	Hugo von Ziemssen’s Tratado enciclopédico de patología médica y terapéutica
	Conclusions
	References
Part III Stranded Encyclopedias in the Modern Age
7 The Brazilian Encyclopedia: A Stranded Dream
	Odd Bedfellows: Nationalism à la brasileira
	The Brazilian Encyclopedia: “Showing the Great Civility of a Nation”
	An Encyclopedic Revolution
	From Journeys of Discovery to a Crystal Cage
	An Encyclopedia That Never Was
	Final Remarks
	References
8 Stranded in Time: Andrew Clark and the Language of World War I
	Writing a War of Words
	Reading and Representation
	Stranding and the Casualties of War
	References
9 A Successfully Stranded Translator’s Dictionary: Arnold Lissance’s Underappreciated Attempt to Create the Perfect Resource for Translators
	The Translator’s Dictionary as a Resource for Translation History
	Lissance’s Path to Becoming a Translator and Lexicographer
	The Vision of the Translator’s Dictionary
	Ahead of Academic Development
	The Intersection of Translation and Lexicography
	The Genre of Translation Dictionaries
	“Small and Difficult Words” as Dictionary Entries
	The Makeup of the Dictionary
	The Most Contested Feature
	The Compilation Process
	The T.D. Travels to Europe
	The Perceived Weaknesses of the T.D
	The T.D. as an Intentionally Unfinished Project
	Stranded but not Lost
	Becoming a Historical Source
	A Successfully Stranded Dictionary
	References
10 The Rise and Fall of Danish Encyclopedias, 1891–2017
	J.H. Schultz—A Family Company
	The Creation of a Tradition
	The Establishment of a Cultural Institution
	Den Store Salmonsen
	The Editorial Work
	The End
	The Rise of New Encyclopedic Publications
	Success in Print, Digital Stranding
	Summary and Conclusions
	References
Index