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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Alff, David, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Wreckage of Intentions : Projects in British Culture, 166-173 / David Alff. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017] ©2018 1 online resource (248 p.) : 3 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. What Is a Project? -- Chapter 1. Improvement’s Genre: Andrew Yarranton and the Rhetoric of Projection -- Chapter 2. Company in Paper: Aaron Hill’s Beech Oil Bust -- Chapter 3. Projects Beyond Words: Undertaking Fen Drainage -- Chapter 4. Inheriting the Future: Georgic’s Projecting Strain -- Chapter 5. Swift’s Solar Gourds and the Antiproject Tradition -- Coda. Imaginary Debris in Defoe’s New Forest -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 scientific, technological, and intellectual interventions intended for the betterment of England. But for all the fanfare surrounding them, few such schemes actually materialized, leaving scores of defunct visions, from Defoe's own attempt to farm cats for perfume, to Mary Astell's proposal to charter a college for women, to countless ventures for improving land, streamlining government, and inventing new consumer goods. Taken together, these failed plans form a compelling alternative history of a Britain that might have been.The Wreckage of Intentions offers a comprehensive and critical account of projects, exploring the historical memory surrounding these 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. Using methods of literary analysis, David Alff shows how projects began as written proposals, circulated as print objects, spurred physical undertakings, and provoked responses in the realms of poetry, fiction, and drama. Mapping this process discloses the ways in which eighteenth-century authors applied their faculties of imagination to achieve finite goals and, in so doing, devised new ways of seeing the world through its future potential. Approaching old projects through the language, landscapes, data, and personas they left behind, Alff contends this vision was, and remains, vital to the functions of statecraft, commerce, science, religion, and literature. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022) English literature 17th century History and criticism. English literature 18th century History and criticism. Industrial development projects England History 17th century. Industrial development projects England History 18th century. Scientific literature England History 17th century. Scientific literature England History 18th century. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Cultural Studies. European History. History. Literature. World History. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606638 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294453 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812294453 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812294453/original |
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