The Fatal News: Reading and Information Overload in Early EighteenthCentury Literature (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory),Used
The Fatal News: Reading and Information Overload in Early EighteenthCentury Literature (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory),Used
The Fatal News: Reading and Information Overload in Early EighteenthCentury Literature (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory),Used

The Fatal News: Reading and Information Overload in Early EighteenthCentury Literature (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory),Used

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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 eighteenthcentury print culture and in twentyfirstcentury 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 readercontrolled, 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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