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 xiv
... factory whose pupil - victims are subjected to a starvation diet of bare facts , and a simple - minded brand of empiricism that justifies such thin fare . Then there are the social classes associated with the factories that dominate the ...
... factory whose pupil - victims are subjected to a starvation diet of bare facts , and a simple - minded brand of empiricism that justifies such thin fare . Then there are the social classes associated with the factories that dominate the ...
Page xxvii
... factory . The Cricket on the Hearth , a Christmas book . Death of Hood , age 46 ; Disraeli , Sybil : The Two Nations ; Friedrich Engels , The Condition of the Work- ing Class in England in 1844. Crop failures in England ; Irish potato ...
... factory . The Cricket on the Hearth , a Christmas book . Death of Hood , age 46 ; Disraeli , Sybil : The Two Nations ; Friedrich Engels , The Condition of the Work- ing Class in England in 1844. Crop failures in England ; Irish potato ...
Page 296
... factory of the industrial capitalist . Masses of labourers , crowded into the factory , are organised like soldiers . As privates of the industrial army they are placed under the command of a perfect hierarchy of officers and sergeants ...
... factory of the industrial capitalist . Masses of labourers , crowded into the factory , are organised like soldiers . As privates of the industrial army they are placed under the command of a perfect hierarchy of officers and sergeants ...
Contents
Hard Times 1854 | 3 |
Condition of England | 267 |
and Its Discontents | 302 |
Copyright | |
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