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Fatal news : reading and information overload in early eighteenth-century literature

Title: Fatal news : reading and information overload in early eighteenth-century literature / Katherine E. Ellison.
Author: Ellison, Katherine E.
Publication: New York : Routledge, 2006.

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Description

x, 158 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Uniform Title

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-147) and index.

Contents

Idea of information overload in the eighteenth century -- 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 -- Toward a material poiesis of information.

ISBN

9780415976268
041597626X
9780415867269
0415867266
9781135502515 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2005031221
9780415976268

OCLC

ocm62341442
62341442
SCSB-14512798

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library