Fatal news : reading and information overload in early eighteenth-century literature / / Katherine E. Ellison

• Autore: Ellison Katherine E.
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (157 p.)
• Disciplina: 823.5093552
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Fatal news
• ISBN: 0-203-95968-X; 1-135-50251-X; 1-135-50244-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910348218503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Literary criticism and cultural theory.