Ellison Katherine E. The Fatal News: Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature 9780415867269

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Автор: Ellison Katherine E.
Название: The Fatal News: Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature
ISBN: 9780415867269
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
Классификация:

Литературоведение: с 1500 до 1800 г.

Литературоведение: художественная литература, романисты и прозаики

ISBN-10: 0415867266
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 168
Вес: 0.25 кг.
Дата издания: 12.09.2014
Серия: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Язык: English
Размер: 230 x 153 x 11
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Ключевые слова: Literature: history & criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / General,LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
Подзаголовок: Reading and information overload in early eighteenth-century literature
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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 theory offers a unique opportunity to reconsider how and why information is figuratively imagined during the eighteenth century as an abstract yet bodily entity that can flood, suffocate, and incapacitate readers. Focusing on 1678 to 1722 -- a period that experienced impressive innovations in communication -- this study reveals that the term information undergoes a significant transformation with social, cultural, and literary consequences. By investigating discussions of information and media that are evident in works by literary authors, the author finds that writers like John Bunyan, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe confront the idea of information overload and provide case studies in literacy reform that operate on institutional, generic, and consumer levels. For example, while in Defoes Journal of the Plague Year information is infectious and citizens depend upon comets and phantoms to construct reader-controlled, decentralized media, in Swifts Tale of a Tub commonplace books and collections demonstrate a new type of organizational, or secretarial, impulse in society.

The Fatal News: Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature, Ellison Katherine E.