Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication
Subtitle: Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG; Springer; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9783319291017
Subjects: Hardy, thomas, 1840-1928
Description: 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. .