LEADER 02727 am 22006373u 450 001 9910348218503321 005 20210228062901.0 010 $a0-203-95968-X 010 $a1-135-50251-X 010 $a1-135-50244-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203959688 035 $a(CKB)3710000000648403 035 $a(EBL)4512041 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001654844 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16434769 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001654844 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14736420 035 $a(PQKB)11641551 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4512041 035 $a(OCoLC)947837736 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000648403 100 $a20130331d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFatal news $ereading and information overload in early eighteenth-century literature /$fKatherine E. Ellison 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (157 p.) 225 1 $aLiterary Criticism and Cultural Theory 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-86726-6 311 $a0-415-97626-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aNotesBibliography; Index 410 0$aLiterary criticism and cultural theory. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCommunication in literature 606 $aBooks and reading$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aBooks and reading$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCommunication in literature. 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 676 $a823.5093552 700 $aEllison$b Katherine E.$0932844 801 0$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910348218503321 996 $aFatal news$92099636 997 $aUNINA