Hard times : an authoritative text, contexts, criticism

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Hard times : an authoritative text, contexts, criticism

Title remainder

an authoritative text, contexts, criticism

Statement of responsibility

Charles Dickens ; edited by Fred Kaplan, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Creator

• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Contributor

• Kaplan, Fred, 1937-

Author

• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Editor

• Kaplan, Fred, 1937-

Subject

• Domestic fiction
• England
• England -- Fiction
• Fiction
• Hard times (Dickens, Charles)
• Political fiction
• Political fiction
• Social problems
• Social problems -- Fiction
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
• Domestic fiction

Genre

• Political fiction
• Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"Set in Coketown, the fictitious English mill-town modeled after Preston, Hard Times follows the stories of Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy mill owner, his family, and the poor mill workers in the town. The storylines of Gradgrind's children, Louisa, Tom, and Sissy, run parallel to the troubles of the hard workers struggling to survive in a time of severe inequality. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1854 first edition, with new edits made to encompass more recent scholarly findings. The text comes paired with explanatory footnotes, illustrations and photographs depicting the scenes of the novel in contrast with their historical counterparts, and an introduction by the editor that brings Hard Times into a twenty-first century analysis on the social, economic, and political themes of the novel. "Contexts" carries over most of the contextual materials that help a modern reader acclimate to the harsh realities of mid-nineteenth century industrial England. "Criticism" brings together eighteen essays on Hard Times, five of which were seen in the third edition by Taine, Ruskin, Gissing, Leavis, and Shaw. New essays by Christopher Barnes, Christine Lupton, Victor Sage, Efraim Sicher, and Nils Clausson reexamine the novel as literary art, while Tamar Ketabgian, Kent Greenfield and John E. Nilsson, David M. Levy, Paulette Kidder, Martha Nussbaum, David Lodge, David L. Cowles, and Theodore Dalrymple provide perspectives ranging from the connections to the natural world to the study of law and the word of human experience in between. A Chronology and revised Selected Bibliography are also included."--

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• Norton critical edition

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.8

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR4561.A2

LC item number

K36 2017

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

A Norton critical edition