1st Edition
The Fatal News Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature
By Katherine E. Ellison
Copyright 2006
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
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
Biography
Katherine E. Ellison
