Charles Dickens’ Hard Times (1854) is one of his most overtly political novels, written at the height of the Industrial Revolution. Set in the fictional Coketown, a grim manufacturing city modeled on northern England’s industrial centers, the novel critiques the dehumanizing effects of industrial capitalism and the rigid utilitarian philosophy that dominated Victorian thought. Though shorter than many of Dickens’ other works, Hard Times is dense with social commentary and moral urgency.
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