Literature and encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the pursuit of complete knowledge
First Statement of Responsibility
by Seth Rudy, Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, USA.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
SERIES
Series Title
Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain tells the story of long-term aspirations to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary works from the early modern era and British Enlightenment.
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
Encyclopedism in enlightenment Britain :;Pursuit of complete knowledge
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Enlightenment -- Great Britain.
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
PR448
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K56
Book number
B974
2014
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
by Seth Rudy, Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, USA.