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Dr Louise Creechan's Outputs (2)

Killing the Letter: Alternate Literacies and Orthographic Distortions in Jude the Obscure (2022)
Journal Article
Creechan, L. (2022). Killing the Letter: Alternate Literacies and Orthographic Distortions in Jude the Obscure. Journal of Victorian Culture, 27(3), 493-506. https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcac034

When Jude the Obscure (1895) was published as a single volume novel, Hardy added the biblical epithet ‘the letter killeth’ to the title page. In Jude and across his works, Hardy revels in moments in which literacy seems to undo itself. This article t... Read More about Killing the Letter: Alternate Literacies and Orthographic Distortions in Jude the Obscure.