Fatal News Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature
What was "information" in the early eighteenth century, and what influence did the emergence of information, as potential physical and psychological threat, have on readers of the period? Recent scholarship in eighteenth-century print culture and in twenty-first-century media studies and t...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Taylor & Francis
2006.
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745268206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
