LEADER 05320nam 2200769 450 001 9910457149903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-8734-7 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442687349 035 $a(CKB)2550000000019191 035 $a(EBL)3268226 035 $a(OCoLC)923772180 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000477976 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11325329 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000477976 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10419942 035 $a(PQKB)11354712 035 $a(CaPaEBR)430726 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00224424 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3268226 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672536 035 $a(DE-B1597)465344 035 $a(OCoLC)1013949300 035 $a(OCoLC)944176689 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442687349 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672536 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258202 035 $a(OCoLC)647920865 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000019191 100 $a20160923h20082008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe age of projects /$fedited by Maximillian E. Novak 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2008. 210 4$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (415 p.) 225 1 $aCCS ;$v9 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8020-9873-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tFigures -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. Introduction / $rNovak, Maximillian E. -- $tPart I. Retrieving The Past -- $t2. Family, Inheritance, and Clarendon's History of the Rebellion / $rKingsley, Margery -- $t3. The Interplay of Past and Present in Dryden's 'Palamon and Arcite' / $rHammond, Paul -- $t4. Trojan Originalism: Dryden's Troilus and Cressida / $rVisconsi, Elliott -- $t5. Canon versus Survival in 'Ancient Music' of the Eighteenth Century / $rWeber, William -- $tPart II. Improving The Present -- $t6. A Revolution in Political Economy? / $rPincus, Steven C.A. -- $t7. 'Wandring Ghosts of Trade Whymsies': Projects, Gender, Commerce, and Imagination in the Mind of Daniel Defoe / $rLatta, Kimberly -- $t8. Living Forever in Early Modern Europe: Sir Francis Bacon and the Project for Immortality / $rHaycock, David Boyd -- $t9. Johnson before Boswell in Eighteenth- Century France: Notes towards the Impossible Project of Reclaiming a Man of Letters / $rWeinbrot, Howard D. -- $t10. Art from Nowhere: The Academy in Utopia / $rBoime, Albert -- $tPart III. Envisioning The Future -- $t11. Composing Westminster Bridge: Public Improvement and National Identity in Eighteenth-Century London / $rO'Byrne, Alison F. -- $t12. Here Comes the Son: A Shandean Project / $rSchonhorn, Manuel -- $t13. Science, Projects, Computers and the State: Swift's Lagadian and Leibniz's Prussian Academy / $rGierl, Martin -- $t14. Geographical Projects in the Later Eighteenth Century: Imperial Myths and Realities / $rFabricant, Carole -- $t15. Forging Figures of Invention in Eighteenth-Century Britain / $rKareem, Saraht Indal -- $t16. Measure for Measure: Projectors and the Manufacture of Enlightenment, 1770-1820 / $rStewart, Larry -- $tContributors -- $tIndex 330 $a"The Projecting Age" was a term the English novelist Daniel Defoe used to describe the end of the seventeenth century. This term could just as easily be used, however, to describe the period known as the "Long Eighteenth Century" (1660-1789). The Age of Projects uses the notion of a project as a key to understanding the massive social, cultural, political, literary, and scientific transitions that occurred in Europe during this time. The contributors to this collection examine fraudulent, grandiose, altruistic, and idealistic projects that reveal the period's radical breaks from the past and its preoccupation with the future. Examining topics as diverse as Jonathan Swift's satire on the possibility of a computer, to Gottfried Leibniz's effort to build one, and Edmund Burke's prediction that the project of democratic governance would be taken over by greedy adventurers, this volume provides significant insight into the period's ambitions for an improved future. A well-balanced collection by leading scholars from diverse disciplines, The Age of Projects is a significant contribution to intellectual history, literary history, and the history of science. 410 0$aUCLA Clark Memorial Library series ;$v9. 606 $aHumanities 606 $aScience and the humanities 606 $aIntellectual life$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aCivilization, Western$y18th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y18th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHumanities. 615 0$aScience and the humanities. 615 0$aIntellectual life$xHistory 615 0$aCivilization, Western 676 $a001.309/033 702 $aNovak$b Maximillian E. 712 02$aWilliam Andrews Clark Memorial Library. 712 02$aUniversity of California, Los Angeles.$bCenter for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457149903321 996 $aThe age of projects$91976593 997 $aUNINA