Hard Times (1854) - Charles Dickens

KORTE INHOUD

Penguin Classics.
Edited with an introduction and notes by Kate Flint.
Paperback, in-8, 319 pp., notes, Dickens chronology.
Hard Times is often called the industrial novel of Dickens (1812-1870).. voor een Nederlandse vertaling, zie ons boeknummer 18530002 . Coketown is essential as a setting epitomising the negative aspects of industrialisation and the mechanisation of the human soul. The description of Coketown makes it clear that it is not a place of enjoyment or pleasure or nature - rather, the only thing it encourages is dull, repetitive and endless labour. Dickens wrote this novel as a protest against industrialisation and how it was in danger of turning humans into machines and denying their creativity and imagination. Coketown, then, is his creation showing this transformation in process. Note how the reference to the workers as "Hands" reinforces this - they are named only for the work they are able to do, and have no individuality.. What was Dickens trying to tell us about society and its preoccupat...
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1995Uitgever: Penguin319 paginasTaal: Engels