Fatal news : reading and information overload in early eighteenth-century literature / / Katherine E. Ellison
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| Autore: |
Ellison Katherine E.
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| Titolo: |
Fatal news : reading and information overload in early eighteenth-century literature / / Katherine E. Ellison
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| Pubblicazione: | 2005 |
| London, [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 | |
| ©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 | |
| Classificazione: | LIT000000LIT007000 |
| 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Fatal news |
| ISBN: | 9780203959688 |
| 020395968X | |
| 9781135502515 | |
| 113550251X | |
| 9781135502447 | |
| 1135502447 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910765617203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Literary criticism and cultural theory.