Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication

Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems

Gebonden Engels 2016 9783319291017
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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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ISBN13:9783319291017
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Springer International Publishing

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<div>Acknowledgments.- List of Abbreviations.-&nbsp;Introduction: ‘A Modern Wessex of the penny post’.-&nbsp;1. ‘The speaking age is passing away, to make room for the writing age’: From Oral Tradition to Written Culture.-&nbsp;2. ‘Inconvenient old letters’: Letters and Privacy in Hardy’s Fiction.-&nbsp;3. ‘A more material existence than her own’: Epistolary Selves in Hardy’s Fiction.-&nbsp;4. ‘Never so nice in your real presence as you are in your letters’: Letters and Desire in Jude the Obscure.&nbsp;5.‘A Story of to-day’: Hardy’s Postal Plots.-&nbsp;6. ‘Unopened and forgotten’: Letters from the Margins.-&nbsp;7. Epistolary Ghosts: Letters in Hardy’s Poems and Shorter Fictions.-&nbsp;Conclusion, or the Profitable Reading of Letters.-&nbsp;Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-</div>

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