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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.-.
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.-.