The Resource Literature and encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain : the pursuit of complete knowledge, Seth Rudy, Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, USA
Literature and encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain : the pursuit of complete knowledge, Seth Rudy, Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, USA
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- Summary
- 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 British Enlightenment, to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It is also a story of the persistent failure of these aspirations, their collapse in the late eighteenth century, and the subsequent redefinition of completeness in modern literary and disciplinary terms. The book argues that the pursuit of complete knowledge advanced the separation of epic from encyclopedia, literature from "Literature," and the sciences from the humanities; it demonstrates that the distinctions between "high" and "low," ephemeral and eternal, useful and useless that persist today all stem from the concepts of completeness that emerged during and as a result of the Enlightenment. --Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 253 pages
- Contents
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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
- Isbn
- 9781137411532
- Label
- Literature and encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain : the pursuit of complete knowledge
- Title
- Literature and encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain
- Title remainder
- the pursuit of complete knowledge
- Statement of responsibility
- Seth Rudy, Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, USA
- Title variation
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- Encyclopedism in enlightenment Britain
- Pursuit of complete knowledge
- Title variation remainder
- the pursuit of complete knowledge
- Subject
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- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
- Encyclopedists
- Encyclopedists -- Great Britain
- English literature
- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Enlightenment
- Enlightenment -- Great Britain
- Epic literature, English
- Epic literature, English -- History and criticism
- Great Britain
- History
- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
- Learning and scholarship
- Learning and scholarship -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- 1700 - 1799
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 British Enlightenment, to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It is also a story of the persistent failure of these aspirations, their collapse in the late eighteenth century, and the subsequent redefinition of completeness in modern literary and disciplinary terms. The book argues that the pursuit of complete knowledge advanced the separation of epic from encyclopedia, literature from "Literature," and the sciences from the humanities; it demonstrates that the distinctions between "high" and "low," ephemeral and eternal, useful and useless that persist today all stem from the concepts of completeness that emerged during and as a result of the Enlightenment. --Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1978-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rudy, Seth
- Dewey number
- 820.9/005
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR448.K56
- LC item number
- R83 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English literature
- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
- Enlightenment
- Epic literature, English
- Encyclopedists
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Learning and scholarship
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Encyclopedists
- English literature
- Enlightenment
- Epic literature, English
- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
- Learning and scholarship
- Great Britain
- Label
- Literature and encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain : the pursuit of complete knowledge, Seth Rudy, Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, USA
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 881655990
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 253 pages
- Isbn
- 9781137411532
- Lccn
- 2014021122
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)881655990
- Label
- Literature and encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain : the pursuit of complete knowledge, Seth Rudy, Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, USA
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 881655990
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 253 pages
- Isbn
- 9781137411532
- Lccn
- 2014021122
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)881655990
Subject
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
- Encyclopedists
- Encyclopedists -- Great Britain
- English literature
- English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Enlightenment
- Enlightenment -- Great Britain
- Epic literature, English
- Epic literature, English -- History and criticism
- Great Britain
- History
- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
- Learning and scholarship
- Learning and scholarship -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- 1700 - 1799
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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