Fatal news : reading and information overload in early eighteenth-century literature / Katherine E. Ellison.
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TextSeries: Literary criticism and cultural theoryPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2006Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781135502515
- 113550251X
- 9781135502447
- 1135502447
- 9780203959688
- 020395968X
- 9781135502584
- 1135502587
- English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- Communication in literature
- Books and reading -- England -- History -- 18th century
- Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century
- Social change in literature
- Social evolution -- History
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Books and reading
- Communication in literature
- English fiction
- English fiction -- Early modern
- Social change in literature
- Social evolution
- England
- 1500-1799
- 823/.5093552 22
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-147) and index.
Information ad infinitum : Bunyan's lessons in careful reading in The pilgrim's progress -- Information as ambush : miscommunication and the post in Behn's The history of a nun -- Suffocation by information : collectivity and the secretary in Swift's A tale of a tub -- Infectious information : signs of collective intelligence in Defoe's A journal of the plague year.
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