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Author:
Rudy, Seth, 1978-
Title:
Literature and encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain : the pursuit of complete knowledge / by Seth Rudy, Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, USA.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
viii, 253 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject:
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
Enlightenment--Great Britain.
Epic literature, English--History and criticism.
Encyclopedists--Great Britain.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries--Great Britain--History and criticism.
Learning and scholarship--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Encyclopedists.
English literature.
Enlightenment.
Epic literature, English.
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
Learning and scholarship.
Great Britain.
Englisch.
Literatur.
Enzyklopädismus.
Aufklärung.
Großbritannien.
1700 - 1799
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-241) 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.
Series:
Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
ISBN:
1137411538 (hbk.)
9781137411532 (hbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)881655990
LCCN:
2014021122
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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