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The wreckage of intentions : projects in British culture, 1660-1730 / David Alff.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alff, David, author.
- Series:
- Alembics.
- Alembics. Penn Studies in Literature and Science Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--17th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- Industrial development projects--England--History--17th century.
- Industrial development projects.
- Industrial development projects--England--History--18th century.
- Scientific literature--England--History--17th century.
- Scientific literature.
- Scientific literature--England--History--18th century.
- England--Civilization--17th century.
- England.
- England--Civilization--18th century.
- Genre:
- History
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- The Wreckage of Intentions offers a comprehensive account of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century projects--concrete yet incomplete efforts to advance British society during a period defined by revolutions in finance and agriculture, the rise of experimental science, and the establishment of constitutional monarchy.
- Contents:
- Introduction. What is a project?
- Improvement's genre : Andrew Yarranton and the rhetoric of projection
- Company in paper : Aaron Hill's beech oil bust
- Projects beyond words : undertaking fen drainage
- Inheriting the future : georgic's projecting strain
- Swift's solar gourds and the antiproject tradition
- Coda. Imaginary debris in Defoe's new forest.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780812294453
- 0812294459
- OCLC:
- 1012845807
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