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" Literature and encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain : "
by Seth Rudy, Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, USA.
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719986
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b539681
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by Seth Rudy, Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, USA.
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Literature and encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain : : the pursuit of complete knowledge\ by Seth Rudy, Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, USA.
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
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1137411546
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: 9781137411549
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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.
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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.
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Enlightenment -- Great Britain.
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Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
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PR448.K56B974 2014
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Seth Rudy
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Encyclopedism in enlightenment Britain :;Pursuit of complete knowledge
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