03475nam 22006615 450 991025523090332120240724140103.09783319291024331929102510.1007/978-3-319-29102-4(CKB)3860000000009971(DE-He213)978-3-319-29102-4(MiAaPQ)EBC4532822(Perlego)3490831(EXLCZ)99386000000000997120160525d2016 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThomas Hardy and Victorian Communication Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems /by Karin Koehler1st ed. 2016.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (XII, 246 p.) 9783319291017 3319291017 Includes bibliographical references and index.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. .Literature, Modern19th centuryEuropean literatureLiteratureHistory and criticismFictionLiterature and technologyMass media and literatureNineteenth-Century LiteratureEuropean LiteratureLiterary HistoryFiction LiteratureLiterature and TechnologyLiterature, ModernEuropean literature.LiteratureHistory and criticism.Fiction.Literature and technology.Mass media and literature.Nineteenth-Century Literature.European Literature.Literary History.Fiction Literature.Literature and Technology.809.034Koehler Karinauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1061279BOOK9910255230903321Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication2518154UNINA