The age of projects
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Novak, Maximillian E. |
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| Other Corporate Authors / Creators: | William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies. |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | 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, c2008. |
| Series: | UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ;
9. |
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| Online Access: | Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete. |
Table of 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.