The Age of Projects.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- PART 1: RETRIEVING THE PAST -- 2 Family, Inheritance, and Clarendon's History of the Rebellion -- 3 The Interplay of Past and Present in Dryden's 'Palamon and Arcite' -- 4 Trojan Originalism: Dryden's Troilus and Cressida -- 5 Canon versus Survival in 'Ancient Music' of the Eighteenth Century -- PART 2: IMPROVING THE PRESENT -- 6 A Revolution in Political Economy? -- 7 'Wandring Ghosts of Trade Whymsies': Projects, Gender, Commerce, and Imagination in the Mind of Daniel Defoe -- 8 Living Forever in Early Modern Europe: Sir Francis Bacon and the Project for Immortality -- 9 Johnson before Boswell in Eighteenth-Century France: Notes towards the Impossible Project of Reclaiming a Man of Letters -- 10 Art from Nowhere: The Academy in Utopia -- PART 3: ENVISIONING THE FUTURE -- 11 Composing Westminster Bridge: Public Improvement and National Identity in Eighteenth-Century London -- 12 Here Comes the Son: A Shandean Project -- 13 Science, Projects, Computers, and the State: Swift's Lagadian and Leibniz's Prussian Academy -- 14 Geographical Projects in the Later Eighteenth Century: Imperial Myths and Realities -- 15 Forging Figures of Invention in Eighteenth-Century Britain -- 16 Measure for Measure: Projectors and the Manufacture of Enlightenment, 1770-1820 -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

The Age of Projectsuses 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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