Some Discussions of Dickens's Hard Times (original) (raw)

Discussions

• Introduction
• Hard Times for These Times: Dickens at 42
• 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
• Bibliography of Suggested Readings about Hard Times
• Dickens' satirical attacks on the British Association [for Science]
• Dickens' Hard Times and Dystopia
• Machinery and a new vision of the human psyche
• The Poetics of Air Pollution in Hard Times
• Charles Dickens's Hard Times for These Times as an Industrial Novel
• “No Escape to be Had, No Absolution to be Got”: Divorce in the Lives and Novels of Charles Dickens and Caroline Norton
• J. B. Priestley on why Hard Times is a bad novel
• "Evil Intentions are the Evil Person's Own Undoing"
• "Dickens and Critical Theory"
• The Narrators of Hard Times and The Mayor of Casterbridge as Wisdom Speakers
• Dreadful Riot at Preston [model for Dickens's Coketown], 1842
• The Allusion to "The Writing on the Wall" in Dickens's Hard Times and Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886)

Adaptations on Stage and Screen

• A New Dramatic Adaptation (October 2008)
• Facts Lie at the Heart of the Matter: Comparing the Book and Movie Versions of Dickens's Hard Times

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)
• Harry Furniss' depiction of Gradgrind (1910)
• "She shuddered to apporoach the pit" by an unidentified illustrator for an edition of Dickens' works by the Co-operative Publication Society [1912?]

Reading questions and projects

• Five Co-operative Learning Projects for Hard Times
• A New Critical Approach
• A Textual-Biographical Approach
• A New Historicist Approach
• Cinematic Adaptation and Illustration
• Close-Reading of a Passage
• Intertextuality: Hard Times and Charles Perrault "Bluebeard"
• Reading and Discussion Questions for Hard Times

Last modified 25 November 2021