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15 Cards in this Set
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What is its full title & publication date? |
Hard Times, For These Times (subtitle added after single volume pub.). Published in cereal: 1st of April 1854 Published in single volume: |
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What changes did Dickens' make between the two publications? |
He added the subtitle, chapter and book titles. |
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When did the production of books become mechanised? |
By the 1830s |
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What were the purposes of Hard Times? |
To boos the waning sale of Household Words and to encourage thought about the quality of life of industrial workers, as was being fought for by the workers of Preston. |
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What was church attendance like in 1851? Which demographics were least likely to attend? |
Only about half of the population and the figure was lowest in the working class areas of London and the northern industrial towns
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When did evidence emerge about the 'condition of England', what did it lead to and who coin that phrase? |
In the 1830s & 40s the middle & upper classes realised how little thay knew about working people's lives. Seeking to find out more, they turned in part to fiction & the social-problem novel was born. The phrase was coined by Thomas Carlyle. |
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Quote about social-problem novels, there purpose & definition. |
"Social-problem novels are typically distinguished [...]by their attempt to comment on, and stimulate debate about, matters of general public and political concern" & 'the non-literary ambitions which certain authors were assumed to have held" Jacqueline M. Guy 1996 |
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What other works are considered social-problem novels? |
'Mary Barton' & 'North and South' (pub. In HW after HT) by Elizabeth Gaskell, 'Sybil, or The Two Nations' by Benjamin Disraeli, 'Alton Locke' by Charles Kingsley and 'Felix Holt, the Radical' by George Eliot. |
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How is Slackbridge's character written? |
He is written using overblown & broad rhetoric which comes across as insincere & hollow. He is also written to use repetition and long piled up sentences. |
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What makes the way Sleary is written so idiosyncratic? |
He is written phonetically. |
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What makes Stephen Blackpool's voice so distinctive? |
He has been written with a Northern accent and a working class sociolect. He also usually speaks in short sentences with straight forward syntax, except when he speaks to Bounderby about the Coketown 'muddle'. |
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What is the quote which Dickens journal is named from? |
'Familiar in their Mouths as Household Words'- Shakespeare's Henry V |
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What was 'the general mind and purpose' of Household Words? |
"the raising up of those that are down, and the general improvement of our social condition" Dickens to Gaskell |
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Polyphonic |
A book written with multiple voices, all of which are roughly equal. This includes the authors own and their point of view. |
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Dialogic |
When a book creates or presents a dialogue between multiple arguments or points of view. Anotonym monologue. |
