Fatal news : reading and information overload in early eighteenth-century literature / Katherine E. Ellison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellison, Katherine E., author.

Series:

Literary criticism and cultural theory.

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Communication in literature.

Books and reading--England--History--18th century.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--England--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 p.)

Place of Publication:

2005.

London, [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction The Idea of Information Overload in the Eighteenth Century; Chapter One Information ad infinitum: Bunyan's Lessons in Careful Reading in The Pilgrim's Progress; Chapter Two Information as Ambush: Miscommunication and the Post in Behn's The History of the Nun; Chapter Three Suffocation by Information: Collectivity and the Secretary in Swift's A Tale of a Tub; Chapter Four Infectious Information: Signs of Collective Intelligence in Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year; Afterword Toward a Material Poiesis of Information

NotesBibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed January 24, 2024).

ISBN:

9780203959688

020395968X

9781135502515

113550251X

9781135502447

1135502447

OCLC:

947837736

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access