David Alff

The Wreckage of Intentions

Projects in British Culture, 166-173

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

David Alff teaches English at the University at Buffalo.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780812249590
• ISBN-10: 0812249593
• Artikelnr.: 48141101

Autorenporträt

David Alff

Inhaltsangabe

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
Acknowledgments