Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication: Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems
Author:   Karin Koehler
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
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9783319291017


Pages:   246
Publication Date:   06 June 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication: Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems


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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.

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Author:   Karin Koehler
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   4.401kg
ISBN:  

9783319291017


ISBN 10:   3319291017
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   06 June 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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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In Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication, Karin Koehler draws our attention to how much still remains to be uncovered regarding the function of letters and written communication in Hardy's fiction ... . Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication is a far-ranging and commanding investigation of its titular concerns, and it deserves a wide readership. (James Green, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, September, 2017)


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Karin Koehler is Teaching and Research Assistant at the University of St Andrews, UK, where she pursued her award-winning doctoral research. She has taught on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature at three Scottish Universities, while researching representations of media, technologies, and networks of communication in Victorian and modernist prose and poetry.

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