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Literature and encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain : the pursuit of complete knowledge /
At a moment when Google seeks "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", this book tells the story of long-term aspirations, first in ancient epic and then in a wide range of literary and non-literary works from the early modern era and Britis...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.