Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems

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Author

Koehler, Karin.

Title

Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication [electronic resource] : Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems / by Karin Koehler.

ISBN

9783319291024

Publication

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Physical Description

XII, 246 p. : online resource.

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Summary

This book explores the relationship between Thomas Hardy’s works and Victorian media and technologies of communication – especially the penny post and the telegraph. Through its close analysis of letters, telegrams, and hand-delivered notes in Hardy’s novels, short stories, and poems, it ties together a wide range of subjects: technological and infrastructural developments; material culture; individual subjectivity and the construction of identity; the relationship between private experience and social conventions; and the new narrative possibilities suggested by modern modes of communication. .

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Format

Books / Online

Language

English

Added to Catalog

June 01, 2016

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: ‘A Modern Wessex of the penny post’

1. ‘The speaking age is passing away, to make room for the writing age’: From Oral Tradition to Written Culture

2. ‘Inconvenient old letters’: Letters and Privacy in Hardy’s Fiction

3. ‘A more material existence than her own’: Epistolary Selves in Hardy’s Fiction

4. ‘Never so nice in your real presence as you are in your letters’: Letters and Desire in Jude the Obscure. 5.‘A Story of to-day’: Hardy’s Postal Plots

6. ‘Unopened and forgotten’: Letters from the Margins

7. Epistolary Ghosts: Letters in Hardy’s Poems and Shorter Fictions

Conclusion, or the Profitable Reading of Letters

Notes

Bibliography

Index.-.

Subjects

Literature.

Literature > History and criticism.

Literature, Modern > 19th century.

Fiction.

Technology in literature.