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

Koehler, Karin

ISBN 10: 3319291017 / ISBN 13: 9783319291017

Published by Springer Verlag, 2016

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236 pages. 8.25x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication: Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319291017
• ISBN 13: 9783319291017
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.46 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Karin Koehler is Teaching and Research Assistant at the University of St Andrews, UK, where she pursued her award-winning doctoral research. She has taught on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature at three Scottish Universities, while researching representations of media, technologies, and networks of communication in Victorian and modernist prose and poetry.