Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication

Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems

Autori

• Karin Köhler

Parametri

• 258 pagine
• 10 ore di lettura

• Narrativa

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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.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2016

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