David Copperfield and Hard Times

John Peck

The new critical approaches that have swept through literary criticism in recent years have transformed our sense of David Copperfield and Hard Times. There is now a new kind of understanding of how both novels emerge from and relate to the 1850s. In collecting together the most original and exciting innovative work on David Copperfield and Hard Times, this New Casebook offers the reader an excellent introduction to current critical thinking about Dickens.