Charles Dickens' Hard TimesPart of Longman's Cultural Edition series, Charles Dickens' Hard Times offers this intriguing novel within several provocative and illuminating contexts--cultural, critical, and literary. Based on the first edition, Hard Times is extensively annotated, with a lively introduction and helpful notes on cultural references, social and political mores, literary allusions, and unfamiliar word usage. In addition to providing a chronology coordinating Dickens' life with key historical events, the editors explore the political, economical, educational, and social state of England in the 1830s and 1840s. Many of these issues are reflected in the section of Victorian-era reactions to Hard Times. A guide to further reading is provided as a service to students, scholars, and the curious. |
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Page 308
... character . The cold utilitarian view of self and society associ- ated with Jeremy Bentham finds a warmer interpretation in the work of John Stuart Mill . This pair of essays on Bentham ( whom Mill knew since birth ) and on poet Samuel ...
... character . The cold utilitarian view of self and society associ- ated with Jeremy Bentham finds a warmer interpretation in the work of John Stuart Mill . This pair of essays on Bentham ( whom Mill knew since birth ) and on poet Samuel ...
Page 331
... character , which made it seem the nat- ural effect of causes that it was hardly possible for time to remove . I frequently asked myself , if I could , or if I was bound to go on living , when life must be passed in this manner . I ...
... character , which made it seem the nat- ural effect of causes that it was hardly possible for time to remove . I frequently asked myself , if I could , or if I was bound to go on living , when life must be passed in this manner . I ...
Page 350
... character or without interest would not be true ; but we are sure that every reader really admiring the fine genius of Mr Dickens must , in the annoyance and regret with which he read , have almost overlooked the inalienable gifts of ...
... character or without interest would not be true ; but we are sure that every reader really admiring the fine genius of Mr Dickens must , in the annoyance and regret with which he read , have almost overlooked the inalienable gifts of ...
Contents
Hard Times 1854 | 3 |
Condition of England | 267 |
and Its Discontents | 302 |
Copyright | |
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