Literature and encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain : the pursuit of complete knowledge /
Rudy, Seth,1978-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
English literature
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
Enlightenment
Epic literature, English
Encyclopedists
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Learning and scholarship