Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain: The Pursuit of Complete Knowledge

by Seth Rudy

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137411532
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/14/2014
Series:	Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print Series
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	253
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Seth Rudy is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Rhodes College, USA. Though devoted primarily to British poetry and prose of the eighteenth century, he has also published and presented work in the fields of Dickens studies, data visualization, and the modern history of print and digital encyclopedias.

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