Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication : Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems / / by Karin Koehler
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| Autore: |
Koehler Karin
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| Titolo: |
Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication : Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems / / by Karin Koehler
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XII, 246 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 809.034 |
| Soggetto topico: | Literature, Modern - 19th century |
| European literature | |
| Literature - History and criticism | |
| Fiction | |
| Literature and technology | |
| Mass media and literature | |
| Nineteenth-Century Literature | |
| European Literature | |
| Literary History | |
| Fiction Literature | |
| Literature and Technology | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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.-. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. . |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication |
| ISBN: | 9783319291024 |
| 3319291025 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910255230903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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