Literature and encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain [electronic resource] : the pursuit of complete knowledge / Seth Rudy, Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, USA

Author: Rudy, Seth, 1978-
Additional Titles: Encyclopedism in enlightenment Britain : the pursuit of complete knowledge and Pursuit of complete knowledge
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Physical Description: viii, 253 pages ; 23 cm.

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Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and the cultures of print

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Contents

Introduction: concepts of completeness -- Complete bodies, whole arts, and the limits of epic -- Worlds apart: epic and encyclopedia in the Augustan age -- Mid-century experiments in encyclopedism -- Collapse and reconstitution: epic and encyclopedia revisited -- Coda: the angel and the algorithm -- Appendix.

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9781137411532 (hbk.)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-241) and index.

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