The Wreckage of Intentions : : Projects in British Culture, 166-173 / / David Alff.
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain saw the proposal of so many endeavors called "projects"—a catchphrase for the daring, sometimes dangerous practice of shaping the future—that Daniel Defoe dubbed his era a "Projecting Age." These ideas spanned a wide variety of...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 3 illus. |
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