The age of projects
By: edited by Maximillian E. Novak.
Contributors: Novak, Maximillian E.; William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.; University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies.
Series: CCS -- 9; UCLA Clark Memorial Library series -- 9.
Publisher: 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; University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780802098733
Subjects: Humanities; Science and the humanities; Intellectual life -- History -- 18th century; Civilization, Western -- 18th century; Humanités; Sciences et sciences humaines; Vie intellectuelle -- Histoire -- 18e siècle; Civilisation occidentale -- 18e siècle; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction / Maximillian E. Novak; title: 2. Family, inheritance, and Clarendon's History of the rebellion / Margery Kingsley; title: 3. The interplay of past and present in Dryden's Palamon and Arcite / Paul Hammond; title: 4. Trojan originalism: Dryden's Troilus and Cressida / Elliott Visconsi; title: Canon versus survival in 'ancient music' of the eighteenth century / William Weber; title: A revolution in political economy? / Steven C. A. Pincus; title: 'Wandering ghosts of trade whymsies': projects, gender, commerce, and imagination in the mind of Daniel Defoe / Kimberly Latta; title: Living forever in early modern Europe: Sir Francis Bacon and the project for immortality / David Boyd Haycock; title: Johnson before Boswell in eighteenth-century France: notes toward the impossible project of reclaiming a man of letters / Howard D. Weinbrot; title: Art from nowhere: the academy in Utopia / Albert Boime; title: Composing Westminster Bridge: public improvement and national identity in eighteenth-century London / Alison F. O'Byrne; title: Here comes the son: a Shandean project / Manuel Schonhorn; title: Science, projects, computers, and the state: Swift's Lagadian and Leibniz's Prussian academy / Martin Gierl; title: Geographical projects in the later eighteenth century: imperial myths and realities / Carole Fabricant; title: Forging figures of invention in eighteenth-century Britain / Sarah Tindal Kareem; title: Measure for measure: projectors and the manufacture of enlightenment, 1770-1820 / Larry Stewart.