Thomas Hardy and Victorian communication : letters, telegrams and postal systems /: letters, telegrams and postal systems. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Karin Koehler.
• Authors: Koehler, Karin
• 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.-.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.6; Letters -- History and criticism; Letter writing -- History; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Letter writing; Letters; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History; Records and correspondence; Correspondence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319291024; 3319291025
• Related ISBNs: 9783319291017; 3319291017
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 29, 2016)
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.