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Titolo |
The age of projects / / edited by Maximillian E. Novak |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008 |
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©2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-4426-9299-5 |
1-4426-8734-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (415 p.) |
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Collana |
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Humanities |
Science and the humanities |
Intellectual life - History - 18th century |
Civilization, Western - 18th century |
Festschriften |
History |
Electronic books. |
Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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-- 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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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