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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| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science
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Table of Contents:
- 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