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Hard Times

Contents

  • The Text of Hard Times
  • Title Page
  • Dedication
  • The Contents of Hard Times
  • Hard Times
  • A NOTE ON THE TEXT
    • Dickens’ Working Plans
    • Textual History
    • The Running Headlines
    • Our Text
    • The Textual Notes
  • TEXTUAL NOTES
  • Backgrounds, Sources, and Contemporary Reactions
  • Hard Times Calendar
  • Dickens’s Comments on the Composition of Hard Times
  • INDUSTRIALISM
    • [The Preston Strike: A History]
    • [An Ostracized Workman]
    • James Lowe, The Preston Lock-Out
    • Charles Dickens, On Strike
    • Henry Morley, Ground in the Mill
    • Harriet Martineau, The Factory Legislation: A Warning Against Meddling Legislation (Manchester 1855)
    • R. D. Butterworth, Dickens the Novelist: The Preston Strike and Hard Times
  • EDUCATION
    • J. M. McCulloch, Preface to A Series of Lessons
    • Charles Dickens, [A Conference of Statisticians], [Joe Whelks and Education]
    • Jane Sinnett, [Dickens as a Critic of Education]
    • Charles Darwin, [Atrophy of Imagination in a Scientist]
    • Philip Collins, [Horses, Flowers, and the Department of Practical Art]
  • UTILITARIANISM AND THE SCIENCE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
    • John Stuart Mill, [The Mind and Character of Jeremy Bentham]
    • J. R. McCulloch, [On Adam Smith and Laissez-Faire], [Malthus and Population], [Useful Education for the Working Class]
    • Thomas Carlyle, [The Condition of the Working Class], [Selling Cheap]
    • E. P. Whipple, [On the Economic Fallacies of Hard Times]
  • Criticism
  • Hippolyte Taine, [The Two Classes of Characters in Hard Times]
  • John Ruskin, A Note on Hard Times
  • George Gissing, [Dickens’s Portrayal of the Working Class in Hard Times]
  • Bernard Shaw, Hard Times
  • F. R. Leavis, Hard Times: An Analytic Note
  • Monroe Engel, Hard Times
  • Robert Barnard, Imagery and Theme in Hard Times
  • David Craig, [Hard Times: The Meaning of the Title]
  • David Lodge, How Successful is Hard Times?
  • Roger Fowler, [Modes of Speech in Hard Times]
  • Patricia E. Johnson, Hard Times and the Structure of Industrialism: The Novel as Factory
  • Gorman Beauchamp, Mechanomorphism in Hard Times
  • Martha C. Nussbaum, The Literary Imagination in Public Life
  • David L. Cowles, Having It Both Ways: Gender and Paradox in Hard Times
  • Jean Ferguson Carr, Writing as a Woman: Dickens, Hard Times, and Feminine Discourses
  • Eric P. Levy, Dickens’ Pathology of Time in Hard Times
  • Leona Toker, Hard Times and a Critique of Utopia: A Typological Study
  • Charles Dickens: A Chronology

    Selected Bibliography

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