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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ellison, Katherine E.
Corporate Author:	Taylor & Francis
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2006.
Series:	Literary criticism and cultural theory.
Subjects:	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. Roman anglais > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique. Communication dans la littérature. Livres et lecture > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle. Livres et lecture > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle. Changement social dans la littérature. Évolution sociale > Histoire. 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 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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Table of 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.