The Age of Projects /

The Age of Projects / / Maximillian E. Novak.

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"The Projecting Age" was a term the English novelist Daniel Defoe used to describe the end of the seventeenth century. This term could just as easily be used, however, to describe the period known as the "Long Eighteenth Century" (1660-1789). The Age of Projects uses the notion o...

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Novak, Maximillian E.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction / Novak, Maximillian E.
  • Part I. Retrieving The Past
  • 2. Family, Inheritance, and Clarendon's History of the Rebellion / Kingsley, Margery
  • 3. The Interplay of Past and Present in Dryden's 'Palamon and Arcite' / Hammond, Paul
  • 4. Trojan Originalism: Dryden's Troilus and Cressida / Visconsi, Elliott
  • 5. Canon versus Survival in 'Ancient Music' of the Eighteenth Century / Weber, William
  • Part II. Improving The Present
  • 6. A Revolution in Political Economy? / Pincus, Steven C.A.
  • 7. 'Wandring Ghosts of Trade Whymsies': Projects, Gender, Commerce, and Imagination in the Mind of Daniel Defoe / Latta, Kimberly
  • 8. Living Forever in Early Modern Europe: Sir Francis Bacon and the Project for Immortality / Haycock, David Boyd
  • 9. Johnson before Boswell in Eighteenth- Century France: Notes towards the Impossible Project of Reclaiming a Man of Letters / Weinbrot, Howard D.
  • 10. Art from Nowhere: The Academy in Utopia / Boime, Albert
  • Part III. Envisioning The Future
  • 11. Composing Westminster Bridge: Public Improvement and National Identity in Eighteenth-Century London / O'Byrne, Alison F.
  • 12. Here Comes the Son: A Shandean Project / Schonhorn, Manuel
  • 13. Science, Projects, Computers and the State: Swift's Lagadian and Leibniz's Prussian Academy / Gierl, Martin
  • 14. Geographical Projects in the Later Eighteenth Century: Imperial Myths and Realities / Fabricant, Carole
  • 15. Forging Figures of Invention in Eighteenth-Century Britain / Kareem, Saraht Indal
  • 16. Measure for Measure: Projectors and the Manufacture of Enlightenment, 1770-1820 / Stewart, Larry
  • Contributors
  • Index

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