Hard Times (1854) considers the dangers of industrialization, a hard utilitarian philosophy, and an educational system that ignores the development of the imagination. The novel appeared in issues of Dickens’s weekly journal, Household Words, from no.01 in April to no.12 in August 1854, without accompanying illustration.

Creator

• Dickens, Charles

Subject

• Education--Fiction
• Social problems--Fiction
• Utilitarianism--Fiction

Publisher

• Bradbury and Evans

Language

• English

Identifier

• PR4561.A1.1854

Alternate title

• Household words : Hard times

Year

• 1854

Date created

• 1854

Resource type

• Book

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Last modified

• 2022-09-20