The Fatal News: Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century …

ABSTRACT 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 …

Discourses of global queer mobility and the mediatization of equality

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