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

Authors

  • Adrian J. Wallbank Royal Holloway, University of London

Keywords:

Seth Rudy, Encyclopedias, Systems, Enlightenment, Knowledge, Epic, Dictionaries, Usefulness, History, Eighteenth-Century Literature

Abstract

Review by Adrian J. Wallbank (Royal Holloway, University of London) of Seth Rudy, Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain: The Pursuit of Complete Knowledge. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 253. £55. ISBN9781137411532.

Benjamin West, 'Narcissus and Echo' (1805)

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Published

08-05-2016

Issue

No. 47 (2016)

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Reviews