comprises a series of essays from French scholars who seek to lay down the foundations of a literary theory that would argue for the productivity of errors (and mistakes) in literary works.

Marc Porée is Professor of English Literature at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he runs the LILA (Literature and Languages) Department and teaches British and postcolonial literature. When he is not publishing on Romantic poets and translating, Porée writes on British and postcolonial contemporary fiction and/or Victorian or contemporary poetry. Isabelle Alfandary is Professor of American Literature at Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, where she teaches American poetry, fiction, and critical theory. As Director of Programme at the Collège International de Philosophie (CIPh), her seminars deal with the intersection of philosophy and psychoanalysis. She recently authored Derrida-Lacan, L’écriture entre psychanalyse et déconstruction (2016).