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Hard times;, an authoritative text, backgrounds, sources, and contemporary reactions, criticism., Edited by George Ford [and] Sylvère Monod

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Edited by George Ford [and] Sylvère Monod

A Norton critical edition

an authoritative text, backgrounds, sources, and contemporary reactions, criticism.

Hard Times, Dickens's shortest novel and one of his major triumphs, tells the tragic story of Louisa Gradgrind and her father. No other work of Dickens presents so harsh an indictment against the attitude of life he associated with Utilitarianism. With savage bitterness Dickens exposes the devilish industries and institutions that exploited the bodies and minds of the vulnerable labor class

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