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 303
... happiness for the greatest number . " In excising all considerations of the heart , the majority rule of Bentham's philosophy was seen by many to legitimate any number of abhorrent acts , such as sacrificing one's sons for the good of ...
... happiness for the greatest number . " In excising all considerations of the heart , the majority rule of Bentham's philosophy was seen by many to legitimate any number of abhorrent acts , such as sacrificing one's sons for the good of ...
Page 304
... happiness of the party whose interest is in question : or , what is the same thing in other words , to promote or to oppose that happiness . I say of every action whatsoever ; and therefore not only of every action of a pri- vate ...
... happiness of the party whose interest is in question : or , what is the same thing in other words , to promote or to oppose that happiness . I say of every action whatsoever ; and therefore not only of every action of a pri- vate ...
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... happiness principle ' . It is a topic on which much were to be said , if there were room , or if it were in reality nec- essary for the just estimation of Bentham . On an occasion more suitable for a discussion of the metaphysics of ...
... happiness principle ' . It is a topic on which much were to be said , if there were room , or if it were in reality nec- essary for the just estimation of Bentham . On an occasion more suitable for a discussion of the metaphysics of ...
Contents
Hard Times 1854 | 3 |
Condition of England | 267 |
and Its Discontents | 302 |
Copyright | |
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