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The Fatal News

Af: Katherine E. Ellison Engelsk Paperback
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The Fatal News

Af: Katherine E. Ellison Engelsk Paperback
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 Defoe''s Journal of the Plague Year information is infectious and citizens depend upon comets and phantoms to construct reader-controlled, decentralized media, in Swift''s Tale of a Tub commonplace books and collections demonstrate a new type of organizational, or secretarial, impulse in society.
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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 Defoe''s Journal of the Plague Year information is infectious and citizens depend upon comets and phantoms to construct reader-controlled, decentralized media, in Swift''s Tale of a Tub commonplace books and collections demonstrate a new type of organizational, or secretarial, impulse in society.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 168
ISBN-13: 9780415867269
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0415867266
Udg. Dato: 11 sep 2014
Længde: 11mm
Bredde: 230mm
Højde: 153mm
Forlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato: 11 sep 2014
Forfatter(e): Katherine E. Ellison
Forfatter(e) Katherine E. Ellison


Kategori Litteraturstudier: generelt


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 168


Udgave


Længde 11mm


Bredde 230mm


Højde 153mm


Udg. Dato 11 sep 2014


Oplagsdato 11 sep 2014

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