03397nam 22007935 450 991096695770332120240321225527.09781349489282134948928X9781137411549113741154610.1057/9781137411549(CKB)2670000000569693(EBL)1809323(SSID)ssj0001347807(PQKBManifestationID)11788638(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001347807(PQKBWorkID)11352308(PQKB)11218772(MiAaPQ)EBC1809323(DE-He213)978-1-137-41154-9(Perlego)3487720(EXLCZ)99267000000056969320151113d2014 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLiterature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain The Pursuit of Complete Knowledge /by Seth Rudy1st ed. 2014.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2014.1 online resource (262 p.)Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print,2634-6524Description based upon print version of record.9781322169057 1322169055 9781137411532 1137411538 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexLiterature 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.Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print,2634-6524LiteraturePhilosophyCultureStudy and teachingEuropean literatureEuropean literatureRenaissance, 1450-1600FictionLiterary TheoryCultural TheoryEuropean LiteratureEarly Modern and Renaissance LiteratureFiction LiteratureLiteraturePhilosophy.CultureStudy and teaching.European literature.European literatureFiction.Literary Theory.Cultural Theory.European Literature.Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.Fiction Literature.820.9/005Rudy Sethauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1334889BOOK9910966957703321Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain4333229UNINA