LEADER 03475nam 22006615 450 001 9910255230903321 005 20240724140103.0 010 $a9783319291024 010 $a3319291025 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-29102-4 035 $a(CKB)3860000000009971 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-29102-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4532822 035 $a(Perlego)3490831 035 $a(EXLCZ)993860000000009971 100 $a20160525d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aThomas Hardy and Victorian Communication $eLetters, Telegrams and Postal Systems /$fby Karin Koehler 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (XII, 246 p.) 311 08$a9783319291017 311 08$a3319291017 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments -- 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.-. 330 $aThis 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. . 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFiction 606 $aLiterature and technology 606 $aMass media and literature 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aEuropean Literature 606 $aLiterary History 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aLiterature and Technology 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aLiterature and technology. 615 0$aMass media and literature. 615 14$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aLiterary History. 615 24$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aLiterature and Technology. 676 $a809.034 700 $aKoehler$b Karin$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01061279 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255230903321 996 $aThomas Hardy and Victorian Communication$92518154 997 $aUNINA