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

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Alff, David (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Collection:Alembics.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.