Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication

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Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication is written by Karin Koehler and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3319291025 (ISBN 10) and 9783319291024 (ISBN 13).

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.