Fatal news : reading and information overload in early eighteenth-century literature /: reading and information overload in early eighteenth-century literature. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Katherine E. Ellison.
• Other Names: Ellison, Katherine E
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (168 pages)
• Subjects: 823/.5093552; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; 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
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781135502515
• Related ISBNs: 113550251X
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.