Literature and encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain : the pursuit of complete knowledge
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Literature and encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain : the pursuit of complete knowledge
（Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-241) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 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 Notes Bibliography Index
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