Postal Pleasures - Sex, Scandal, and Victorian Letters

Zusatztext richly evocative and captivating book ... Thomas's book is not only thoroughly informative; it is also elegant, engaging, and entertaining. Informationen zum Autor Kate Thomas is Associate Professor of English, Bryn Mawr College. Klappentext With readings of novels by Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Henry James, and others, Postal Pleasures explores the relationship between illicit sex and the postal service in Victorian Britain. Zusammenfassung With readings of novels by Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Henry James, and others, Postal Pleasures explores the relationship between illicit sex and the postal service in Victorian Britain.

List of contents

• Introduction:


• Victorians Go Postal


• 1. Postal Digressions:


• Mail and Sexual Scandal


• 2. "This Little Queen's Head Can't be Untrue:" Trollope's Postal Infidelities


• 3. A Queer Job for A Girl:


• the Communicative Touch in Trollope, Hardy and Lynn Linton


• 4. All Red Routes: Blood Brotherhood and the Post in Doyle, Kipling and Stoker


• 5. Post Script: Henry James's Public Servant


• Works Cited


• Index

Product details

• Authors: Kate Thomas, Thomas Kate
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.12.2011
• EAN: 9780199730919
• ISBN: 978-0-19-973091-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Postal & Telecommunications Industries