Thomas Hardy and Victorian communication : letters, telegrams and postal systems

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    • Koehler, Karin

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Thomas Hardy and Victorian communication : letters, telegrams and postal systems

Karin Koehler

Palgrave Macmillan, c2016

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Bibliography: p. 221-237

Includes index

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内容説明

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.

目次

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.-

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