The Fatal News: Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415976268 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 158 str.

Katherine E. Ellison

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First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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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

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Katherine E. Ellison