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

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Book
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English
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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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    "'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.
    ISBN
    • 9780802098733 ((alk. paper))
    • 0802098738 ((alk. paper))
    • 9781442687349
    • 1442687347
    LCCN
    2009292279
    OCLC
    219937912
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