Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain [electronic resource] : The Pursuit of Complete Knowledge /
Rudy, Seth.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Concepts of Completeness; 2 Complete Bodies, Whole Arts, and the Limits of Epic; 3 Worlds Apart: Epic and Encyclopedia in the Augustan Age; 4 Mid-Century Experiments in Encyclopedism; 5 Collapse and Reconstitution: Epic and Encyclopedia Revisited; Coda: The Angel and the Algorithm; Appendix; Table 1.1 English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) title searches; Table 1.2.A The Complete "X": 1600-1699; Table 1.2.B "Whole Arts": 1556-1699; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
British literature.
Literature, Modern.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
British and Irish Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Fiction.