Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication: Letters, Telegrams by Karin Koehler

By Karin Koehler

This publication explores the connection among Thomas Hardy’s works and Victorian media and applied sciences of conversation – specially the penny put up and the telegraph. via its shut research of letters, telegrams, and hand-delivered notes in Hardy’s novels, brief tales, and poems, it ties jointly quite a lot of matters: technological and infrastructural advancements; fabric tradition; person subjectivity and the development of id; the connection among inner most event and social conventions; and the hot narrative percentages advised through glossy modes of communication.

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