Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication : Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems （1st ed. 2016. 2016. 210 mm）

Koehler, Karin

SPRINGER, BERLIN; SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING（2016発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783319291017

Full 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.

Contents

Acknowledgments.- List of Abbreviations.- Introduction: 'A Modern Wessex of the penny post'.- 1. 'The speaking age is passing away, to make room for the writing age': From Oral Tradition to Written Culture.- 2. 'Inconvenient old letters': Letters and Privacy in Hardy's Fiction.- 3. 'A more material existence than her own': Epistolary Selves in Hardy's Fiction.- 4. 'Never so nice in your real presence as you are in your letters': Letters and Desire in Jude the Obscure. 5.'A Story of to-day': Hardy's Postal Plots.- 6. 'Unopened and forgotten': Letters from the Margins.- 7. Epistolary Ghosts: Letters in Hardy's Poems and Shorter Fictions.- Conclusion, or the Profitable Reading of Letters.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-