| 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. |
