Erste Sitzung: 18. April 2017
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The industrial or “Condition of England” novel was a very popular subgenre of the novel in the Victorian Age (1837-1901). Dickens's Hard Times and Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South are two representative texts; both were first published in serial form in Dickens's magazine Household Words between 1854 and 1855. Industrial novels are essentially works of social protest. They were a reaction to the rapid industrialisation and urbanisation of the UK and the problems related to these developments, such as the so-called “factory question”, which comprised the unbearable working and living conditions of the lower-class worker, child labour, and the utilitarian mindset of the factory owners. Written in support of and inspired by the political activism of the Hungry Forties, such as the Chartist movement or the “Ten-hours-movement”, these novels helped to spread awareness for the issues of their time and to push forward further social reform in the second half of the century.
Please read Hard Times before the start of term.
Texts:
Dickens, Charles. Hard Times. Ed. Kate Flint. London: Penguin, 2003.
ISBN-10: 014143967X, ISBN-13: 978-0141439679
Gaskell, Elizabeth. North and South. Ed. Patricia Ingham. London: Penguin, 2003.
ISBN-10: 0140434240, ISBN-13: 978-0140434248 |
