Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems /
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| Sumari: | XII, 246 p. text |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Edició: | 1st ed. 2016. |
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| Accés en línia: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29102-4 |
| Format: | Electrònic Llibre |
Taula de continguts:
- 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.-.