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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966957703321

Autore

Rudy Seth

Titolo

Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain : The Pursuit of Complete Knowledge / / by Seth Rudy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

9781349489282

134948928X

9781137411549

1137411546

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print, , 2634-6524

Disciplina

820.9/005

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

Culture - Study and teaching

European literature

European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600

Fiction

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

European Literature

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature

Fiction Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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



Sommario/riassunto

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.