Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication
Author: Karin Koehler
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-05-25
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 3319291025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.