03071nam 22007213 450 991076561720332120231110172225.00-203-95968-X1-135-50251-X1-135-50244-710.4324/9780203959688 (CKB)3710000000648403(EBL)4512041(SSID)ssj0001654844(PQKBManifestationID)16434769(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001654844(PQKBWorkID)14736420(PQKB)11641551(MiAaPQ)EBC4512041(OCoLC)947837736(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34326(MiAaPQ)EBC7244855(Au-PeEL)EBL7244855(OCoLC)1378934103(EXLCZ)99371000000064840320231110h20172006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFatal news reading and information overload in early eighteenth-century literature /Katherine E. EllisonLondon, [England] ;New York :Routledge,2017.©20061 online resource (157 p.)Literary Criticism and Cultural TheoryDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-86726-6 0-415-97626-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 InformationNotesBibliography; IndexFirst Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Literary criticism and cultural theory.English fiction18th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fictionEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismCommunication in literatureBooks and readingEnglandHistory18th centuryBooks and readingEnglandHistory17th centuryEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.Communication in literature.Books and readingHistoryBooks and readingHistory823/.5093552Ellison Katherine E.1261913MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910765617203321Fatal news2946154UNINA