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Thomas Hardy and Victorian communication = letters, telegrams and postal systems /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Thomas Hardy and Victorian communication/ by Karin Koehler.
Reminder of title:	letters, telegrams and postal systems /
Author:	Koehler, Karin.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2016.,
Description:	xii, 246 p. :digital ; : 22 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Literature. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29102-4
ISBN:	9783319291024

Thomas Hardy and Victorian communication = letters, telegrams and postal systems /
Koehler, Karin.

Thomas Hardy and Victorian communicationletters, telegrams and postal systems /[electronic resource] :by Karin Koehler. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2016. - xii, 246 p. :digital ;22 cm.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9783319291024

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-29102-4doiSubjects--Personal Names:

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Hardy, Thomas,
1840-1928--Characters.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature.

LC Class. No.: PR4757.L48 / K64 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 823.8

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