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Twentieth century interpretations of Hard times; a collection of critical essays.

By: Series: A Spectrum book | Twentieth century interpretationsPublication details: Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1969]Description: iv, 123 pages 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0133840247
  • 9780133840247
Other title:
  • Hard times
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.8
LOC classification:
  • PR4561 .G7
  • PN94 .T91 v.12
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
Introduction / Paul Edward Gray -- [Part One. Interpretations] -- The battle for Preston / K.J. Fielding -- Politics / Humphry House -- Good intentions and bad results / Philip Collins -- Hard times : the problems of a weekly serial / John Butt and Kathleen Tillotson -- Critique of materialism / Edgar H. Johnson -- Hard times -- Dickens's masterpiece? / A.O.J. Cockshut -- The social microcosmic pattern / Earle Davis -- Dickens as social novelist / Sylvere Monod -- The rhetoric of Hard times / David Lodge -- [Part Two. Viewpoints] -- George Gissing -- G.K. Chesterton -- George Bernard Shaw -- George Orwell -- K.J. Fielding -- J. Hillis Miller -- Lionel Stevenson.
Summary: Dickens' attack on the abuses of the industrial revolution is evaluated by a group of distinguished critics and commentators.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Paul Edward Gray -- [Part One. Interpretations] -- The battle for Preston / K.J. Fielding -- Politics / Humphry House -- Good intentions and bad results / Philip Collins -- Hard times : the problems of a weekly serial / John Butt and Kathleen Tillotson -- Critique of materialism / Edgar H. Johnson -- Hard times -- Dickens's masterpiece? / A.O.J. Cockshut -- The social microcosmic pattern / Earle Davis -- Dickens as social novelist / Sylvere Monod -- The rhetoric of Hard times / David Lodge -- [Part Two. Viewpoints] -- George Gissing -- G.K. Chesterton -- George Bernard Shaw -- George Orwell -- K.J. Fielding -- J. Hillis Miller -- Lionel Stevenson.

Dickens' attack on the abuses of the industrial revolution is evaluated by a group of distinguished critics and commentators.

Also issued online.

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