Hard times : an authoritative text, contexts, criticism

Hard times : an authoritative text, contexts, criticism / Charles Dickens.

For this Third Edition, the editors, Fred Kaplan and Sylvere Monod, have re-edited the 1854 first edition text in light of scholarly findings made in the decade since the Second Edition was published. In addition, the annotations to the novel have been revised and expanded. The new contributors are...

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Autor principal: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Outros Autores: Kaplan, Fred, 1937-, Monod, Sylvère, 1921-2006
Formato: Livro
Idioma:English
Publicado em: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2001.
Edição:3rd ed. / edited by Fred Kaplan, Sylvère Monod.
Colecção:Norton critical edition.
Assuntos:
Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870. > Hard times.
Social problems > Fiction.
England > Fiction.
Political fiction.
Sumário:
  • The text of Hard times
  • Title page
  • Dedication
  • The contents of Hard times
  • Hard times
  • A note on the text
  • The genesis of Hard times: a history of the text
  • Dickens' working plans
  • The running headlines
  • Our text
  • The textual notes
  • Textual notes
  • Emendations list
  • Contexts: Hard times calendar
  • Dickens' comments on the composition of Hard times
  • Industrialism: The Preston strike: a history
  • An ostracized workman
  • The Preston lock-out / James Lowe
  • On strike / Charles Dickens
  • The factory legislation: a warning agianst meddling legislation Manchester 1855 / Harriet Martineau
  • Dickens the novelist: the Preston strike and Hard times / R. D. Butterworth
  • Education: Preface to A series of lessons / J.M.M'Culloch
  • A conference of statisticians / Charles Dickens
  • Joe Whelks and education
  • Dickens as a critic of education / Jane Sinnett
  • Atrophy of imagination in a scientist / Charles Darwin
  • Horses, flowers, and the department of practical art / Philip Collins
  • Utilitarianism and the science of political economy: The mind and character of Jeremy Bentham / John Stuart Mill
  • On Adam Smith and Laissez-faire / J. R. McCulloch
  • Malthus and population
  • Useful education for the working classes
  • The condition of the working class / Thomas Carlyle
  • Selling cheap
  • On the economic fallacies of Hard times / E. P. Whipple
  • Criticism: The two classes of characters in Hard times / Hippolyte Taine
  • A note on Hard times / John Ruskin
  • Dicken's portrayal of the working class in Hard times / George Gissing
  • Hard times / Bernard Shaw
  • Hard times: an analytic note / F. R. Leavis
  • Hard times / Monroe Engel
  • Imagery and theme in Hard times / Robert Barnard
  • Hard times: the meaning of the title / David Craig
  • How successful is Hard times? / David Lodge
  • Hard times and the structure of industrialism: the novel as factory / Patricia E. Johnson
  • Mechanomorphism in Hard times / Gorman Beauchamp
  • The literary imagination in public life / Martha C. Nussbaum
  • Having it both ways: gender and paradox in Hard times / David L. Cowles
  • Writing as a woman: Dickens, Hard times and feminine discourses / Jean Ferguson Carr
  • Dickens pathology of time in Hard times / Eric P. Levy
  • Hard times and a critique of utopia: a typological study / Leona Toker.

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