Abstract
Some of Dickens’s novels, such as Great Expectations, are partly or wholly set in an earlier period; but Hard Times is very much a topical novel – the full title of the first edition (1854), indeed, was Hard Times. For These Times – and the issues it presents were in the air when it was written. This chapter will explore major aspects of the most important questions with which the novel is concerned.
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© 1985 Norman Page
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Page, N. (1985). Themes and Issues. In: Hard Times by Charles Dickens. Macmillan Master Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07934-6_3
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