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

Koehler, Karin

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-06-06

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319291017

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-29102-4

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 246