| Description |
1 online resource (x, 404 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
CCS ; 9
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UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 9.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Humanities.
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Humanities. |
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Science and the humanities.
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Science and the humanities. |
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Intellectual life -- History -- 18th century.
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Intellectual life. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Civilization, Western -- 18th century.
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Civilization, Western. |
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Great Britain. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Festschriften.
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Festschriften.
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| Added Author |
Novak, Maximillian E.
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William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
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University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Age of projects. 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 (DLC) 2009292279 |
| ISBN |
9781442687349 (electronic book) |
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1442687347 (electronic book) |
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9780802098733 (alkaline paper) |
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0802098738 (alkaline paper) |
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