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.
- ISBN: 978-3-319-29101-7
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 250
- Fecha Publicación: 11/05/2016
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés