Systems failure : the uses of disorder in English literature /

Systems Failure is the first book to consider English fiction of the long eighteenth century as a sweeping critique of Enlightenment system-building. It examines literary responses to various schemes of social organization, from Johnson's tracking of urban encounters in the Life of Savage and S...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Franta, Andrew (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism. Social systems in literature. Literature and society > England > History > 18th century. Enlightenment > England.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Unconscionable maps
Life without theory in the Life of Savage
Sterne and the uses of disorder
From map to network in Humphry Clinker
Godwin's handshake
Jane Austen and the morphology of the marriage plot
De Quincey's systems.