Chapters in this book

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