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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Koehler, Karin (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:	XII, 246 p. text
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:	1st ed. 2016.
Subjects:	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.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29102-4
Format:	Electronic Book

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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