Fatal news reading and information overload in early eighteenth-century literature
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London, [England] ; New York :
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| Series: | Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429710206719 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
