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Charles Dickens

Hard Times

Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Jan. 1, 1854)
In Dickens's interpretation, the prevalence of utilitarian values in educational institutions, promoted contempt between mill owners and workers, creating young adults whose imaginations had been neglected, due to an over-emphasis on facts at the expense of more imaginative, wished to satirise radical Utilitarians whom he described in a letter to Charles Knight as "see figures and averages, and nothing else." He also wished to campaign for reform of working conditions. Dickens had visited factories in Manchester as early as 1839, and was appalled by the environment in which workers toiled. Drawing upon his own childhood experiences, Dickens resolved to "strike the heaviest blow in my power" for those who laboured in horrific conditions. Critics such as George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Macaulay have mainly focused on Dickens's treatment of trade unions and his post–Industrial Revolution pessimism regarding the divide between capitalist mill owners and undervalued workers during the Victorian era. F. R. Leavis, a great admirer of the book, included it—but not Dickens' work as a whole—as part of his Great Tradition of English novels.
ISBN
1542957206 / 9781542957205
Pages
208
Weight
13.3 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.47 in.

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