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

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At a moment when Google seeks "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", this book tells the story of long-term aspirations, first in ancient epic and then in a wide range of literary and non-literary works from the early modern era and Britis...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Rudy, Seth, 1978- (Author)
Other title:Encyclopedism in enlightenment Britain : the pursuit of complete knowledge.
Pursuit of complete knowledge.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
Subjects:
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.
Learning and scholarship.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of 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.

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