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03850aam a2200529 i 4500 001 18EB23F2026811E89DEE1C1997128E48 003 SILO 005 20180126010225 008 170303s2017 paua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017010475 020 $a 0812249593 020 $a 9780812249590 035 $a (OCoLC)976423893 040 $a PU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c PAU $d DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d ERASA $d YDX $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR431 $b .A39 2017 082 00 $a 820.9/004 $2 23 100 1 $a Alff, David, $e author. 245 14 $a The wreckage of intentions : $b projects in British culture, 1660-1730 / $c David Alff. 264 1 $a Philadelphia : $b University of Pennsylvania Press, $c [2017] 300 $a 239 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Alembics: Penn studies in literature and science 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Imaginary debris in Defoe's new forest. $t Company in paper : Aaron Hill's beech oil bust -- $t Projects beyond words : undertaking fen drainage -- $t Inheriting the future : georgic's projecting strain -- $t Swift's solar gourds and the antiproject tradition -- $g Coda $t Imaginary debris in Defoe's new forest. 520 8 $a 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 Defoe's own attempt to farm cats for perfume, to Mary Astell's 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. 650 0 $a English literature $y 17th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English literature $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 651 0 $a England $x Civilization $y 17th century. 651 0 $a England $x Civilization $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Industrial development projects $z England $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Industrial development projects $z England $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Scientific literature $z England $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Scientific literature $z England $x History $y 18th century. 650 7 $a Civilization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862898 650 7 $a English literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00911989 650 7 $a Industrial development projects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00970935 650 7 $a Scientific literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01108873 651 7 $a England. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01219920 648 7 $a 1600-1799 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Alembics. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180710085039.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180403020605.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=18EB23F2026811E89DEE1C1997128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search