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Works of Charles Dickens: The Place Of Hard Times Among The Novels

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Dickens, Charles

Dickens, Charles
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Place Of Hard Times Among The Novels

As Edgar Johnson points out in Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph
(II, 801), "Hard Times brings to a culmination an orderly development of
social analysis that extends in Dickens' work from Dombey and Son through
Bleak House." In the earlier novels he had touched upon "the rotten workings
of the social system in almost every major institution and activity of
society," except for mechanized industry which Dickens saw as "an inhuman,
life-denying tyranny." Hard Times, rather than giving a detailed picture of
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