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 resource (x, 158 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203959688; 9781135502447; 9781135502515; 9781135502584Subject(s): Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century | Books and reading -- England -- History -- 18th century | Communication in literature | English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism | English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism | Social change in literature | Social evolution -- HistoryAdditional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification: 823.5093552 LOC classification: PR858.C636 | E45 2006Online access: Click here to view.
Contents:
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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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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