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The age of projects / edited by Maximillian E. Novak.
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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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x, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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AZ341 .A34 2008
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Intellectual life
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History
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18th century
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Civilization, Western
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Great Britain
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Intellectual life
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William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 9.
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CCS ; 9
Summary note
"'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 of the project as a key to understanding the massive social, cultural, political, literary, and scientific transitions that occurred in Europe during this time." "The essays in this collection examine an array of projects - fraudulent, grandiose, altruistic, and idealistic - that reveal the period's preoccupation with retrieving the past, improving the present, and envisioning the future. Examining such varied topics as Sir Francis Bacon's quest for human longevity, Jonathan Swift's satire on the possibility of a computer, and Gottfried Leibniz's effort to build one, this volume provides unique insight into the often exuberant, sometimes conflicting, ambitions and aspirations characteristic of the era."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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ISBN
9780802098733 ((alk. paper))
0802098738 ((alk. paper))
9781442687349
1442687347
LCCN
2009292279
OCLC
219937912
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