Hard Times : A Longman Cultural Edition

List of Illustrations v About Longman Cultural Editions vi About This Edition viii Introduction xi Table of Dates xx Hard Times (1854) 3(262) Contexts 265(86) Condition of England 267(35) from Sybil, or the Two Nations (1845) 268(1) Benjamin Disraeli from The Condition of the Working Class in 1844 (1845; English translation, 1892) 269(9) Friedrich Engels ``Midas'' and from ``Gospel of Mammonism,'' from Past and Present (1843) 278(5) Thomas Carlyle from ``On Strike'' (1854) 283(5) Charles Dickens from The Communist Manifesto (1848; English translation published 1888) 288(14) Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Utilitarianism, Political Economy, and Its Discontents 302(18) from An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789) 303(5) Jeremy Bentham from ``Bentham'' (1838) and ``Coleridge'' (1840) 308(4) John Stuart Mill ``Captains of Industry'' from Past and Present (1843) 312(3) Thomas Carlyle from ``Signs of the Times'' (1829) 315(5) Thomas Carlyle Education 320(20) ``Preface'' from A Series of Lessons (1831) 321(2) J. M. M'Culloch from Autobiography (1873) 323(11) John Stuart Mill ``Of an Educational Character,'' from Our Mutual Friend (1865) 334(6) Charles Dickens Victorian Reactions to Hard Times 340(11) the Examiner (September 9, 1854) 340(2) [John Forster] from a review in The Rambler 342(1) Richard Simpson Westminster Review, (October 1854) 342(4) ``A Note on Hard Times.'' Cornhill Magazine (August 1860) 346(1) John Ruskin from Atlantic Monthly (March 1877) 347(1) Edwin P. Whipple from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (April 1855) 348(3) Margaret Oliphant Further Reading 351