Making the political personal - narrative stategies in Hard Times.
Medium
Periodical Article
Medium
- part of - (Periodical Copy) (Date) Apr2016 (Volume) 72
Classif
820 EMA
Subject
English
Page
33 - 35
Authors
Cavender, Tony
Contents
The author puts Dickens' novel in the context of other writers and social reformers of the time who believed that novels had the power to change society by winning hearts and minds. In the end though, he wonders whether in the tension between individual stories and political messages the narrative is put under too much strain.