Fatal news : reading and information overload in early eighteenth-century literature /
Ellison, Katherine E.
New York ; London : Routledge,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-147) and index.
Information ad infinitum : Bunyan's lessons in careful reading in The pilgrim's progress -- Information as ambush : miscommunication and the post in Behn's The history of a nun -- Suffocation by information : collectivity and the secretary in Swift's A tale of a tub -- Infectious information : signs of collective intelligence in Defoe's A journal of the plague year.
English fiction
English fiction
Communication in literature.
Books and reading
Books and reading
Social change in literature.
Social evolution