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Ellison, Katherine E.

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After the fatal news arrived: Information delivery and the eighteenth-century media state (John Bunyan, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, James Boswell).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	After the fatal news arrived: Information delivery and the eighteenth-century media state (John Bunyan, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, James Boswell)./
Author:	Ellison, Katherine E.
Description:	257 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0527.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-02A.
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3123323
ISBN:	0496706343

After the fatal news arrived: Information delivery and the eighteenth-century media state (John Bunyan, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, James Boswell).
Ellison, Katherine E.

After the fatal news arrived: Information delivery and the eighteenth-century media state (John Bunyan, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, James Boswell). - 257 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0527.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Emory University, 2004.

"After the Fatal News Arrived" examines late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literacy within the context of developing mass media and expanding information-delivery systems. Readings of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun (1682), Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub (1704), Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), and James Boswell's London journals (1762--95) trace the changing relationship between traditional and technological modes of discourse. Together, these literary works reveal that authors during the period actively participated in contemporary dialogues about the relationships between mass media and literary culture. Informed by twentieth-century media theorists as well as by literary critics and historians of the eighteenth century, this dissertation challenges accepted assumptions about the eighteenth century as a transitional point between oral and print cultures.

ISBN: 0496706343Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

After the fatal news arrived: Information delivery and the eighteenth-century media state (John Bunyan, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, James Boswell).
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520 $a Behn's novel, which portrays a young woman who is ambushed by information, is unique in its portrayal of the post and the news as systems that can be manipulated for social oppression. The reading of her History consequently sets the tone for the rest of the chapters, which confront the limitations of communication technologies and propose alternative models of literacy. From Pilgrim's Progress to Boswell's journals, the works discussed focus on three types of literacy reform: the development of alternative communication models in response to the public nature of print, the creation of new literary and informational genres in response to rhetorical promises of universal public access, and the transformation of everyday strategies and habits of reading in response to the demands of mass media. While Bunyan identifies secrecy as a communication model that is uniquely adapted to the new information technologies of his era, Defoe's narrator questions mass media's dependence upon secrecy in times of disaster and looks instead to collectively-viewed visual symbols as they signal the emergence of a citizen-controlled, decentralized medium. Swift's narrator looks to commonplace books and collections as they demonstrate a new type of organizational, or secretarial, impulse in his society, and Boswell's journals highlight the relationship between private biographical genres and the public world of print and news.
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