Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication Letters, Telegrams and Post
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 nov
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Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication LETTERS, TELEGRAMS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication
Karin Koehler
Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems
Karin Koehler School of English University of St Andrews Glasgow United Kingdom
ISBN 978-3-319-29101-7 ISBN 978-3-319-29102-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-29102-4
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For my parents, all four of them
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book originated in a seminar on The Mayor of Casterbridge at the University of St Andrews, taught by Phillip Mallett in 2010. In the more than five years that have passed, I have accumulated innumerable debts, both personal and professional. In this space, I can only begin to acknowledge the most important ones. I thank Phillip Mallett, for introducing me to Hardy, and for being a generous and kind PhD supervisor, as well as a perceptive, critical, and always constructive reader. I am grateful to the School of English at St Andrews for providing an excellent environment in which to pursue my doctoral research. In particular, I thank my internal PhD examiner Christina Alt, for invaluable feedback and advice; my secondary supervisors Michael Herbert and Susan Manly; and Tom Jones, Sandra Wallace, Jane Gordon, Andrea Marr, and Laura Mackintosh. I am grateful to a global network of Hardy scholars, and most of all the Thomas Hardy Society, for offering a space in which it is possible to celebrate Hardy’s works, and to discuss, develop, share, and sometimes change ideas
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