Hard times / Charles Dickens ; edited with an introduction and notes by Paul Schlicke.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1989. Description: xxvi, 430 p. ; 19 cmISBN: 0195671716; 9780192817853; 019281785XSubject(s): English fiction -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 823.8 LOC classification: PR4561 | .S35 1989Online resources: WorldCat details Summary: Summary:
Hard Times was written to 'shake some people in a terrible mistake of these days', as Dickens put in a letter to Thomas Carlyle. The 'terrible mistake' was the contemporary utilitarian philosophy, expounded in Hard Times (1854) as the Philosophy of Fact by the hard-headed disciplinarian Thomas Gradgrind.
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Bibliography: p. 429-430.
Summary:
Hard Times was written to 'shake some people in a terrible mistake of these days', as Dickens put in a letter to Thomas Carlyle. The 'terrible mistake' was the contemporary utilitarian philosophy, expounded in Hard Times (1854) as the Philosophy of Fact by the hard-headed disciplinarian Thomas Gradgrind.
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