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

Author
Rudy, Seth, 1978- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Description
viii,, 253 pages ; 23 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Series
    Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    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.
    Other title(s)
    • Encyclopedism in enlightenment Britain : the pursuit of complete knowledge
    • Pursuit of complete knowledge
    ISBN
    • 9781137411532
    • 1137411538
    LCCN
    2014021122
    OCLC
    881655990
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