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
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