Title The age of projects / edited by Maximillian E. Novak

Published Toronto : Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Anderson [sic] Clark Memorial Library, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 404 pages) : illustrations Series CCS ; 9 UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 9. Contents 1. Introduction / Maximillian E. Novak -- 2. Family, inheritance, and Clarendon's History of the rebellion / Margery Kingsley -- 3. The interplay of past and present in Dryden's Palamon and Arcite / Paul Hammond -- 4. Trojan originalism: Dryden's Troilus and Cressida / Elliott Visconsi -- Canon versus survival in 'ancient music' of the eighteenth century / William Weber -- A revolution in political economy? / Steven C.A. Pincus -- 'Wandering ghosts of trade whymsies': projects, gender, commerce, and imagination in the mind of Daniel Defoe / Kimberly Latta -- Living forever in early modern Europe: Sir Francis Bacon and the project for immortality / David Boyd Haycock -- Johnson before Boswell in eighteenth-century France: notes toward the impossible project of reclaiming a man of letters / Howard D. Weinbrot -- Art from nowhere: the academy in Utopia / Albert Boime -- Composing Westminster Bridge: public improvement and national identity in eighteenth-century London / Alison F. O'Byrne -- Here comes the son: a Shandean project / Manuel Schonhorn -- Science, projects, computers, and the state: Swift's Lagadian and Leibniz's Prussian academy / Martin Gierl -- Geographical projects in the later eighteenth century: imperial myths and realities / Carole Fabricant -- Forging figures of invention in eighteenth-century Britain / Sarah Tindal Kareem -- Measure for measure: projectors and the manufacture of enlightenment, 1770-1820 / Larry Stewart Summary "The Age of Projects" uses the notion of a project as a key to understanding the massive social, cultural, political, literary, and scientific transitions that occurred in Europe during the late seventeenth century Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Humanities. Science and the humanities. Intellectual life -- History -- 18th century Civilization, Western -- 18th century. REFERENCE -- Questions & Answers. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Civilization, Western Humanities Intellectual life Science and the humanities SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056855 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form Festschriften History Festschriften. Form Electronic book Author Novak, Maximillian E., editor William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies. ISBN 9781442687349 1442687347 1442692995 9781442692992

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