Literature and encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain the pursuit of complete knowledge / Seth Rudy, Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, USA.
| Author/creator | Rudy, Seth, 1978- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. |
| Description | viii, 253 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Encyclopedism in enlightenment Britain : the pursuit of complete knowledge |
| Portion of title | Pursuit of complete knowledge |
| Series | Palgrave 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-241) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014021122 |
| ISBN | 9781137411532 (hbk.) |