Fatal news
Subtitle: reading and information overload in early eighteenth-century literature
By: by Katherine E. Ellison.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: 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.; Social change in literature.; Social evolution -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Information ad infinitum : Bunyan's lessons in careful reading in The pilgrim's progress; title: Information as ambush : miscommunication and the post in Behn's The history of a nun; title: Suffocation by information : collectivity and the secretary in Swift's A tale of a tub; title: Infectious information : signs of collective intelligence in Defoe's A journal of the plague year.