Thomas Hardy And Victorian Communication: Letters, Telegrams And Postal Systems
by Karin Koehler /
2016 / English / PDF
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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.
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.
