Book contents
- Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660–1714
- Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1714
- Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660–1714
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Generic Transitions
- Part II Ideological Transitions
- Part III Cultural Transitions
- Chapter 11 Female Wits and the Late Stuart Stage
- Chapter 12 Deregulating the Libertine Mind: Wine, Wit, and Wanton Fancy
- Chapter 13 After Libertinism: The Passions of the Polite Christian Hero
- Chapter 14 Chymistry, Primary Qualities, and Empirical Knowledge
- Chapter 15 Information and Irony
- Part IV Local Transitions
- Index
- References
Chapter 15 - Information and Irony
from Part III - Cultural Transitions
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Book contents
- Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660–1714
- Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1714
- Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660–1714
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Generic Transitions
- Part II Ideological Transitions
- Part III Cultural Transitions
- Chapter 11 Female Wits and the Late Stuart Stage
- Chapter 12 Deregulating the Libertine Mind: Wine, Wit, and Wanton Fancy
- Chapter 13 After Libertinism: The Passions of the Polite Christian Hero
- Chapter 14 Chymistry, Primary Qualities, and Empirical Knowledge
- Chapter 15 Information and Irony
- Part IV Local Transitions
- Index
- References
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Further Reading
Duguid, Paul, “The Ageing of Information: From Particular to Particulate,” Journal of the History of Ideas 76.3 (2015): 347–68.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L., The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communication and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979).Google Scholar
Floridi, Luciano, Information: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).Google Scholar
Knox, Norman, The Word “Irony” and Its Context: 1500–1755 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1961).Google Scholar
Lewis, Rhodri, Language, Mind, and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).Google Scholar