Hard Times

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Hard Times is a social and industrial novel by Charles Dickens that critiques utilitarianism and the dehumanizing effects of Victorian-era factory life in the fictional Coketown.

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instanceOf industrial novel
novel
social novel
author Charles Dickens
bookTitle Garnering
Reaping
Sowing
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
critiques Victorian factory system
dehumanizing effects of industrialization
utilitarianism
firstPublicationDate 1854
firstPublishedIn Household Words
followedBy Little Dorrit
form serialized novel
genre Victorian literature
industrial novel
social novel
hasAdaptation Hard Times (1915 film)
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surface form: Hard Times (1994 TV film)
literaryMovement Victorian literature
mainCharacter James Harthouse
Josiah Bounderby
Louisa Gradgrind
Sissy Jupe
Stephen Blackpool
Thomas Gradgrind
narrativePerspective third-person omniscient
originalLanguage English
pageCount approximately 321
partOf Charles Dickens bibliography
placeOfFirstPublication London, England
surface form: London
precededBy Bleak House
publisher Bradbury and Evans
surface form: Bradbury & Evans
serializationEndDate 1854-08-12
serializationStartDate 1854-04-01
setIn Coketown
setInPeriod Victorian era
settingType fictional industrial town
structure three books
targetOfStudy literary criticism of industrialization
studies of Victorian social reform
theme class conflict
education based on facts versus imagination
family and emotional repression
industrial capitalism
moral consequences of utilitarian philosophy

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Charles Dickens notableWork Hard Times
Journeyman includesTrack Hard Times
Hard Times hasAdaptation Hard Times self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Hard Times (1977 TV series)
Hard Times hasAdaptation Hard Times self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Hard Times (1994 TV film)
Little Dorrit precededBy Hard Times
Household Words containedWork Hard Times
Household Words serializationOf Hard Times
Kids These Days notableWork Hard Times