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2. Family, Inheritance, and Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Figures vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- 1. Introduction 1
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Part I. Retrieving The Past
- 2. Family, Inheritance, and Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion 29
- 3. The Interplay of Past and Present in Dryden’s ‘Palamon and Arcite’ 51
- 4. Trojan Originalism: Dryden’s Troilus and Cressida 73
- 5. Canon versus Survival in ‘Ancient Music’ of the Eighteenth Century 91
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Part II. Improving The Present
- 6. A Revolution in Political Economy? 115
- 7. ‘Wandring Ghosts of Trade Whymsies’: Projects, Gender, Commerce, and Imagination in the Mind of Daniel Defoe 141
- 8. Living Forever in Early Modern Europe: Sir Francis Bacon and the Project for Immortality 166
- 9. Johnson before Boswell in Eighteenth- Century France: Notes towards the Impossible Project of Reclaiming a Man of Letters 185
- 10. Art from Nowhere: The Academy in Utopia 215
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Part III. Envisioning The Future
- 11. Composing Westminster Bridge: Public Improvement and National Identity in Eighteenth-Century London 243
- 12. Here Comes the Son: A Shandean Project 271
- 13. Science, Projects, Computers and the State: Swift’s Lagadian and Leibniz’s Prussian Academy 297
- 14. Geographical Projects in the Later Eighteenth Century: Imperial Myths and Realities 318
- 15. Forging Figures of Invention in Eighteenth-Century Britain 344
- 16. Measure for Measure: Projectors and the Manufacture of Enlightenment, 1770–1820 370
- Contributors 391
- Index 395
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Figures vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- 1. Introduction 1
-
Part I. Retrieving The Past
- 2. Family, Inheritance, and Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion 29
- 3. The Interplay of Past and Present in Dryden’s ‘Palamon and Arcite’ 51
- 4. Trojan Originalism: Dryden’s Troilus and Cressida 73
- 5. Canon versus Survival in ‘Ancient Music’ of the Eighteenth Century 91
-
Part II. Improving The Present
- 6. A Revolution in Political Economy? 115
- 7. ‘Wandring Ghosts of Trade Whymsies’: Projects, Gender, Commerce, and Imagination in the Mind of Daniel Defoe 141
- 8. Living Forever in Early Modern Europe: Sir Francis Bacon and the Project for Immortality 166
- 9. Johnson before Boswell in Eighteenth- Century France: Notes towards the Impossible Project of Reclaiming a Man of Letters 185
- 10. Art from Nowhere: The Academy in Utopia 215
-
Part III. Envisioning The Future
- 11. Composing Westminster Bridge: Public Improvement and National Identity in Eighteenth-Century London 243
- 12. Here Comes the Son: A Shandean Project 271
- 13. Science, Projects, Computers and the State: Swift’s Lagadian and Leibniz’s Prussian Academy 297
- 14. Geographical Projects in the Later Eighteenth Century: Imperial Myths and Realities 318
- 15. Forging Figures of Invention in Eighteenth-Century Britain 344
- 16. Measure for Measure: Projectors and the Manufacture of Enlightenment, 1770–1820 370
- Contributors 391
- Index 395