TY  - BOOK
AU  - Koehler,Karin
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication: Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems 
SN  - 9783319291024(ebook:PDF)
U1  - 809.034 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing(Imprint)
KW  - Literature, Modern-19th century
KW  - Literature-History and criticism
KW  - Literature and Technology/Media
N1  - 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.-
N2  - 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.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29102-4
ER  -