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The 14th edition, published during , was considerably revised, with much text eliminated or abridged to make room for new topics. The 11th edition's articles are still of value and interest to modern readers and scholars, especially as a cultural artifact: the British Empire was at its maximum, imperialism was largely unchallenged, much of the world was still ruled bymonarchs, and the tragedies of World War I and II were still in the future.
They are an invaluable resource for topics omitted from modern encyclopedias, particularly for biography and the history of science and technology. As a literary text, the encyclopedia has value as an example of early 20th-century prose. For example, it employs literary devices , such as pathetic fallacy attribution of human-like traits to impersonal forces or inanimate objects , which are not as common in modern reference texts.
During , using his pseudonym of S. Wright claimed that Britannica was "characterized by misstatement, inexcusable omissions, rabid and patriotic prejudices, personal animosities, blatant errors of fact, scholastic ignorance, gross neglect of non-British culture, an astounding egotism, and an undisguised contempt for American progress. Amos Urban Shirk, who read both the entire 11th and 14th editions during the s, said he found the 14th edition to be a "big improvement" over the eleventh, stating that "most of the material had been completely rewritten".
Robert Collison, in Encyclopaedias: Their History Throughout The Ages , wrote of the 11th edition that it "was probably the finest edition of the Britannica ever issued, and it ranks with the Enciclopedia Italiana and the 'Espasa [ Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana ] as one of the three greatest encyclopaedias. It was the last edition to be produced almost in its entirety in Britain, and its position in time as a summary of the world's knowledge just before the outbreak of World War I is particularly valuable.
Sir Kenneth Clark, in Another Part of the Wood , wrote of the 11th edition: "One leaps from one subject to another, fascinated as much by the play of mind and the idiosyncrasies of their authors as by the facts and dates. It must be the last encyclopaedia in the tradition of Diderot which assumes that information can be made memorable only when it is slightly coloured by prejudice. When T. It was one of Jorge Luis Borges 's favorite works, and was a source of information and enjoyment for his entire working life.
The edition is no longer restricted by copyright , and it is available in several more modern forms. While it may have been a reliable description of the consensus of its time, for some modern readers, the Encyclopedia has several major errors, ethnocentric remarks, and other issues:. It has been used as a source by many modern projects including Wikipedia and the Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia. Project Gutenberg 's offerings are summarized below in the External links section and include text and graphics.
Penny's poetry pages Wiki Explore. Recent blog posts Forum. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Edit source History Talk 0. Padraig Walsh, Anglo-American general encyclopedias: a historical bibliography , , Borges: A Life. New York: BasicBooks. ISBN XIX 11th ed. Retrieved I 11th ed.
It's among antiquarian booksellers that the 11th enjoys its highest reputation. Norman Kane, an American rare book dealer of over 50 years experience, only recently parted ways with his 11th, and that decision was a reluctant result of a cross-country move.
People whose books we sell every day. More recent editions have lost, I believe, much of the antiquarian flavour that recommends it to us. We are after all more interested in the out-of-date than in the up-to-date. Fifteen hundred men and an impressive by Edwardian standards women contributed articles to the 11th edition, which was edited by Hugh Chisholm.
Under his editorship, the Britannica combined scholarship and readability in a way no previous encyclopedia ever had — and, arguably, no encyclopedia has been able to repeat. Chisholm also revolutionised encyclopedia publishing by releasing the first 14 volumes in the autumn of and the second 14 volumes, along with an index, in the spring of The volumes in previous editions were released as they were completed, with years passing between publication of the first and final volumes. Under the new model, the entire Britannica was assembled before crucial articles went out of date.
With the publication of the final volumes of the 11th, in the spring of , came the last stand of the Enlightenment. One year later the Titanic would strike an iceberg. Three years later, Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. Five years later, a staggering 1. And the world would never be the same.
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