Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems /

Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter: Koehler, Karin (Author)
Institution som forfatter: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XII, 246 p.
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Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Udgivelse:1st ed. 2016.
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Online adgang:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29102-4
Format: Electronisk Bog
Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • 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.-.