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Chapter 5. Swift’s Solar Gourds and the Antiproject Tradition

© 2018 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

© 2018 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction. What Is a Project? 1
  4. Chapter 1. Improvement’s Genre: Andrew Yarranton and the Rhetoric of Projection 23
  5. Chapter 2. Company in Paper: Aaron Hill’s Beech Oil Bust 59
  6. Chapter 3. Projects Beyond Words: Undertaking Fen Drainage 90
  7. Chapter 4. Inheriting the Future: Georgic’s Projecting Strain 114
  8. Chapter 5. Swift’s Solar Gourds and the Antiproject Tradition 143
  9. Coda. Imaginary Debris in Defoe’s New Forest 166
  10. Notes 179
  11. Bibliography 213
  12. Index 229
  13. Acknowledgments 237
The Wreckage of Intentions
This chapter is in the book The Wreckage of Intentions
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294453-006

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction. What Is a Project? 1
  4. Chapter 1. Improvement’s Genre: Andrew Yarranton and the Rhetoric of Projection 23
  5. Chapter 2. Company in Paper: Aaron Hill’s Beech Oil Bust 59
  6. Chapter 3. Projects Beyond Words: Undertaking Fen Drainage 90
  7. Chapter 4. Inheriting the Future: Georgic’s Projecting Strain 114
  8. Chapter 5. Swift’s Solar Gourds and the Antiproject Tradition 143
  9. Coda. Imaginary Debris in Defoe’s New Forest 166
  10. Notes 179
  11. Bibliography 213
  12. Index 229
  13. Acknowledgments 237
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