Dickens, Charles Hard Times for These Times - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Criticism

Butt, John, and Tillotson, Kathleen. "Hard Times: The Problems of a Weekly Serial." In their Dickens at Work, pp. 201-21. London: Methuen & Co., 1963.

Systematic examination of Hard Times in the light of the conditions under which Dickens wrote it. Butt and Tillotson draw upon Dickens's working notes and week-by-week record of the novel's serialization.

Cowles, David L. "Having It Both Ways: Gender and Paradox in Hard Times" Dickens Quarterly VIII, No. 2 (June 1991): 79-84.

Illustrates how Dickens undermines many of his own thematic assertions regarding gender issues by "playing both sides of irreconcilable contradictions." "Yet he does so in ways harmonious with his time, sex, and class (and therefore largely invisible to his contemporary readers) through conceptual languages he could not escape any more than we can escape our own linguistic...

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