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  • Nineteenth-Century Communications: A Documentary History, 1780–1918

    Volume III: Cultures of Communication

    This volume illuminates some of the manifold ways in which Britain’s communication infrastructure affected everyday life in nineteenth-century Britain. Accordingly, it highlights socio-economic, cultural, and material repercussions of selected aspects of mediated communication. It covers:The rise and role of the communication worker and the Post Office’s status as Britain’s largest employer as ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century Communications: A Documentary History, 1780–1918

    Volume I: Reforming the Mails

    This volume focuses on the development of mail services between ca. 1780 and 1860. It takes as its starting point John Palmer’s proposal to reform the mail coach system in the 1780s. As part of this volume, the following themes and subjects are covered:Mail services prior to the introduction of the penny post, including the rise and fall of the mail coach; correspondence and surveillance during ... Read more

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  • Nineteenth-Century Communications: A Documentary History, 1780–1918

    Volume II: Invention, Innovation, Transformation

    This volume foregrounds the close, and mutually informing, relationships between mediated communication and technological innovation during the nineteenth century. It draws attention to the fact that communication was a driver of innovation, but also considers how communication practices adapted to new media and technologies. The following themes and subjects are covered:The development of the ... Read more

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  • Nineteenth-Century Communications: A Documentary History, 1780–1918

    Volume IV: Nation, Empire, Globe

    This volume pays particular attention to Britain’s embeddedness—and role in shaping—a rapidly expanding global communications network. In particular, it reflects the links between communications and Britain’s imperial and colonial projects. It covers:The development of imperial communication routes and infrastructures as well as, in the late nineteenth-century, the introduction of imperial penny ... Read more

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  • Thomas Hardy and Victorian Communication

    Letters, Telegrams and Postal Systems

    by Karin Koehler ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    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; ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

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    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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