TY - BOOK

T1 - Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication

T2 - Letters, Telegrams, and Postal Systems

AU - Koehler, Karin

PY - 2016/6/6

Y1 - 2016/6/6

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.

AB - 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.

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-29102-4

DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-29102-4

M3 - Book

SN - 9783319291017

BT - Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication

PB - Palgrave Macmillan

CY - London

ER -