Graham Law is an associate professor of English Studies at Waseda University,Japan.Law is widely published on the subject of nineteenth-century suspense novels and also the editor of two other Broadview Literary Texts series editions:Great Expectations (with Adrian Pinnington) and The Evil Genius.--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
By 1854,when Hard Times was published,Charles Dickens' magisterial progress as a writer had come to incorporate a many-sided,coherent vision of English society,both as it was and as he wished it to be.Hard Times.a classic Dickensian story of redemption set in a North of England town beset by industrialism,everywhere benefits from this vision - in the trenchancy of its satire,in its sweeping indignation at social injustice,and in the persistent humanity with which its author enlivens his largest and smallest incidents.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.