Category: Hard Times
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Useless things
Mitchell Kalpakgian has an excellent piece about Hard Times in Crisis magazine. Here's a short excerpt: "Dickens illustrates that…
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The Gradgrindian vision
John Mark Reynolds (whom I know personally) has an interesting blog post up about how Dickens…
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The Case of the Invisible Detective: Amateur female sleuths in ‘Hard Times’
When people talk about early detective novels, and Dickens's influence on the genre, they usually tend…
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Statistics
Msantimacassar requested a quote from Hard Times. “‘Then Mr M’Choakumchild said he would try me once more.…
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Fellowship matters
Congratulations to the Dickens Society of Baltimore for becoming an official branch of the Dickens Fellowship!…
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Dickens and data
At Re/Code, Irina Raicu looks at Dickens's exploration of "life regulated and shaped by data and…
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‘Hard Times’ wrap-up
In brief — this was a fairly good adaptation, all told. The cast, with a few…
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‘Hard Times,’ part four
And we're into the home stretch. Nice little monologue in a mirror for Richard E. Grant.…
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‘Hard Times,’ part three
Only had time to watch a little bit tonight, but I wanted to keep the momentum…
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‘Hard Times,’ part two
The sets for this movie are sparse, but effective. You see Stephen walking past a never-ending…