IDENTITY
Hard Times
Literature
Work Summary
Hard Times by Charles Dickens is a novel set in the industrial town of Coketown, where the educator Thomas Gradgrind promotes a philosophy based exclusively on facts and utility. Through workers, factory owners and Gradgrind's children, Dickens criticizes dehumanizing industrial conditions and an education that suppresses imagination and feeling.
Evidence Summary
The novel is invoked in the Borinage context.
Documents reading and recommendation in a period of close attention to workers' lives.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Charles Dickens
Work
Hard Times
Years / Period
5 Aug 1879
Van Gogh Relation
Read, Recommended / Sent, Discussed / Commented On
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
5 Aug 1879 — Letter 153
Recommended / Sent · Recommended / discussed
Van Gogh asks whether Theo has read Les temps difficiles and offers him the book.
Response: The novel is invoked in the Borinage context.
Connection: Documents reading and recommendation in a period of close attention to workers' lives.
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