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Item Details
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"HARD TIMES"
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| By: |
Allen Samuels |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£14.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0333459334 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780333459331 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1992 |
| Series: |
Critics Debate S. |
| Pages: |
104 |
| Description: |
Provides a review of Dickens' novel "Hard Times". The author looks at the social and political situation of the Victorian era recorded in this book and examines the impact of the novel's critical history. Also looked at is the place of fiction in a society increasingly dominated by scientific fact. |
| Synopsis: |
Possibly the least liked of Dickens's novels, Hard Times has generated considerable critical disagreement, usually not for what it is about, but for how good it is. Allen Samuels considers the critical views of several 19th and 20th century critics to show how they have responded in their various ways to this question. Believing that ultimately the question of value is a dead duck, he offers his own interpretation in which he considers how the novel dramatizes within itself the competing rivalry of the literary and sociological imaginations. He focuses on three key critical areas - the novel's genre, the metaphores of reading within the text, and the theme of self-interest as characterised by Bitzer's success. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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