Hard times : an authoritative text, contexts, criticism / Charles Dickens ; edited by Fred Kaplan, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
| Author/creator |
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 author. |
| Other author/creator | Kaplan, Fred, 1937- editor. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | Fourth edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017] |
| Description | xi, 496 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Subject(s) |
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| Series | A Norton critical edition Norton critical edition. ^A538572 |
| Partial contents | The text 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 ; The 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 / Anonymous ; An ostracized workman / Anonymous ; From Locked Out / James Lowe ; On strike / Charles Dickens ; From Ground in the Mill / Henry Morley ; One of the saddest sights / Sven Beckert ; From The Factory Legislation / Marriet Martineau ; Dickens the novelist : the Preston Strike and Hard Times / R.D. Butterworth -- Education. From preface to A series of lessons / J.M. M'Culloch ; A conference of statisticians ; Joe Whelks and education / Charles Dickens ; Dickens as a critic of education / Jane Sinnett ; Atrophy of imagination in a scientist / Charles Darwin -- Utilitarianism and the science of political economy. The mind and character of Jeremy Bentham / John Stuart Mill ; On Adam Smith and laissez-faire ; Malthus and population ; Useful education for the working classes / J.R. McCulloch ; The condition of the working class ; Selling cheap / Thomas Carlyle ; On the economic fallacies of Hard Times / E.P. Whipple. |
| Partial contents | Criticism. The two classses of characters in Hard Times / Hippolyte Taine ; A note on Hard Times / John Ruskin ; Dickens' portrayal of the working class in Hard Times / George Gissing ; Hard Times / George Bernard Shaw ; Hard Times : an analytic note / F.R. Leavis ; From The literary imagination in public life / Martha C. Nussbaum ; From Martha Nussbaum on Dickens's Hard Times / Paulette Kidder ; From Hard Times and the moral equivalence of markets and slavery / David M. Levy ; From Hard Times : fancy as practice / Christopher Barnes ; Hart Times again / Theodore Dalrymple ; From Walking on flowers : the Kantian aesthetics of Hard Times / Christiana Lupton ; From Dickens and the pleasure of the text : the risks of Hard Times / Efraim Sicher ; Having it both ways : gender and paradox in Hard Times / David L. Cowles ; From Dicken's genera mixta : what kind of a novel is Hard Times? / Nils Clausson ; From Gradgrind's education : using Dickens and Aristotle to understand (and replace?) the Business Judgment Rule / Kent Greenfield and John E. Nilsson. |
| Abstract | "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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Genre/form | Political fiction. |
| Genre/form | Domestic fiction. |
| Genre/form | Domestic fiction. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| Genre/form | Political fiction. |
| LCCN | 2016015310 |
| ISBN | 9780393284386 paperback |
| ISBN | 0393284387 paperback |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR4561 .A2 K36 2017 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |