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Author Alff, David, author

Title The wreckage of intentions : projects in British culture, 1660-1730 / David Alff
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (239 pages)
Series Alembics: Penn studies in literature and science
Alembics.
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
Summary 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 constitutional monarchy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject 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
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Civilization
English literature
Industrial development projects
Scientific literature
Englisch
Literatur
Projekt
Innovation
SUBJECT England -- Civilization -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043276
England -- Civilization -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043277
Subject England
Großbritannien
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017010475
ISBN 0812294459
9780812294453