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

Portion of title Encyclopedism in enlightenment Britain : the pursuit of complete knowledge
Portion of title Pursuit of complete knowledge
SeriesPalgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and the cultures of print
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 224-241) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014021122
ISBN9781137411532 (hbk.)