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"The Age of Projects" uses the notion of a project as a key to understanding the massive social, cultural, political, literary, and scientific transitions that occurred in Europe during the late seventeenth century.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores Corporativos: University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Otros Autores: Novak, Maximillian E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Science and the humanities.
Intellectual life.
Humanities.
Civilization, Western.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
REFERENCE > Questions & Answers.
Civilisation occidentale > 18e siecle.
Vie intellectuelle > 18e siecle.
Sciences et sciences humaines.
Humanites.
Civilization, Western > 18th century.
Intellectual life > History > 18th century.
Great Britain.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siecle.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Festschriften.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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