The age of projects / edited by Maximillian E. Novak.
| Other author | Novak, Maximillian E. |
| Other author | William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. |
| Other author | University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | 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, |
| Description | x, 404 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | CCS ; 9 UCLA Clark Memorial Library series 9. ^A610150 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009292279 |
| ISBN | 9780802098733 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0802098738 (alk. paper) |
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