Systems Failure: The Uses of Disorder in English Literature

by Andrew Franta

How eighteenth-century writers stretched systems designed to explain social relations to their breaking point, showing the flaws in their design.

The Enlightenment has long been understood--and often understood itself--as an age of systems. In 1759, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, one of the architects of the Encyclop?die, claimed that the true system of the world has been recognized, developed, and perfected. In Systems Failure,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421427516
• ISBN13: 9781421427515
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"