The Age of Projects

Maximillian E Novak (editor)

ISBN 10: 0802098738 / ISBN 13: 9780802098733

Edité par University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2008

A propos de cet article

16 academic essays. 414 pages (x, 404), references after each contribution; index; publisher's black cloth with gilt titles on the spine: white pictorial dust-jacket. Good, no writing or other defacements; unclipped jacket. Pictures show this actual book. UK orders are post-free.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Age of Projects
• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press, Toronto
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0802098738
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780802098733
• Reliure: Hardcover/Hardback
• Édition: First edition.
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Academic Books
  • Fiction and some other creative writing.

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Synopsis

"The Projecting Age" was a term the English novelist Daniel Defoe used to describe the end of the seventeenth century. This term could just as easily be used, however, to describe the period known as the "Long Eighteenth Century" (1660-1789). The Age of Projects uses the notion of a project as a key to understanding the massive social, cultural, political, literary, and scientific transitions that occurred in Europe during this time.

The contributors to this collection examine fraudulent, grandiose, altruistic, and idealistic projects that reveal the period's radical breaks from the past and its preoccupation with the future. Examining topics as diverse as Jonathan Swift's satire on the possibility of a computer, to Gottfried Leibniz's effort to build one, and Edmund Burke's prediction that the project of democratic governance would be taken over by greedy adventurers, this volume provides significant insight into the period's ambitions for an improved future.

A well-balanced collection by leading scholars from diverse disciplines, The Age of Projects is a significant contribution to intellectual history, literary history, and the history of science.

À propos de l?auteur

Maximillian E. Novak is a distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.