The wreckage of intentions : projects in British culture, 1660-1730 /

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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 constitu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Alff, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Series:Alembics.
Subjects:
1600-1799
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.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Littérature anglaise > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Projets de développement industriel > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Projets de développement industriel > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Sciences > Documentation > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Sciences > Documentation > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Civilization.
English literature.
Industrial development projects.
Scientific literature.
Englisch
Literatur
Projekt
Innovation
England > Civilization > 17th century.
England > Civilization > 18th century.
Angleterre > Civilisation > 17e siècle.
Angleterre > Civilisation > 18e siècle.
England.
Großbritannien
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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