Katherine E. Ellison

The Fatal News (eBook, PDF)

Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on 1678 to 1722 this study reveals that the term 'information' undergoes significant transformations with social, cultural and literary consequences. The book discusses how authors such as Bunyan, Swift, Defoe and Aphra Behn confront the idea of information overload in their work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135502447
• Artikelnr.: 49351695

Autorenporträt

Ellison, Katherine E.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Reading Information and Media in Seventeenth- and
Eighteenth-Century Literature Chapter 1: Away with your Book: Imagined
Communities and the Administration of Secrecy through Print and Post in
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress Chapter 2: Inform me, oh! Inform me: Public
News Events and the Cruel Disease of Information in Aphra Behn's The
History of the Nun: or, The Fair Vow-Breaker Chapter 3: Bring Your Own Guts
to a Reasonable Compass: Swift's Material Poiesis of Information in A Tale
of a Tub Chapter 4: If the Arrow Flies Unseen: Secrecy and the
Documentation of Disaster in Defoe's The Journal of the Plague Year Chapter
5: Freezing Machines and Storehouses: Media of Preservation in James
Boswell's London Journals and Hypochondriack Essays Notes Works Cited