Some Discussions of Dickens's Hard Times

Discussons

• Introduction
• Who Is Thomas Gradgrind in Dickens's Hard Times for These Times?
• The Implication of Christian Names and Surnames in Charles Dickens's Hard Times for These Times
• Dickens' satirical attacks on the British Association [for Science]
• Dickens' Hard Times and Dystopia
• Charles Dickens's Hard Times for These Times as an Industrial Novel
• J. B. Priestley on why Hard Times is a bad novel
• "Evil Intentions are the Evil Person's Own Undoing"
• "Dickens and Critical Theory"
• Facts Lie at the Heart of the Matter: Comparing the Book and Movie Versions of Dickens's Hard Times
• The Narrators of Hard Times and The Mayor of Casterbridge as Wisdom Speakers
• Dreadful Riot at Preston [model for Dickens's Coketown], 1842

Illustrations

• Four of Fred Walker's illustrations (1868)
• Harry French's Twenty Plates for the 1870 edition
• Charles S. Reinhart's fifteen plates for the American edition (1870s)
• "She shuddered to apporoach the pit" by an unidentified illustrator for an edition of Dicken's works by the Co-operative Publication Society [1912?]

Reading questions and projects

• Five Co-operative Learning Projects for Hard Times
• Reading and Discussion Questions for Hard Times

Last modified 5 October 2006