Alff, David.

The Wreckage of Intentions : Projects in British Culture, 166-173. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (248 pages) - Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science Series . - Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science Series .

Cover -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.

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