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The Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture, 1660-1730, Alff David


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Автор: Alff David
Название:  The Wreckage of Intentions: Projects in British Culture, 1660-1730
ISBN: 9780812249590
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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ISBN-10: 0812249593
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 248
Вес: 0.50 кг.
Дата издания: 06.10.2017
Серия: Alembics: penn studies in literature and science
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 3 illus.
Размер: 231 x 158 x 28
Ключевые слова: Literature & literary studies, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain,LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Подзаголовок: Projects in british culture, 166-173
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Поставляется из: Англии
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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 Defoes own attempt to farm cats for perfume, to Mary Astells 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.


Дополнительное описание:

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
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