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Autore |
Ellison Katherine E. |
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Fatal news : reading and information overload in early eighteenth-century literature / / Katherine E. Ellison |
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2005 |
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London, [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
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©2006 |
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9780203959688 |
020395968X |
9781135502515 |
113550251X |
9781135502447 |
1135502447 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (157 p.) |
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Collana |
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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an |
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