SOURCE: "The Brother-Sister Relationship in Hard Times," in The Dickensian, Vol. LX, No. 342, January, 1964, pp. 173-77.
In the essay below, Deneau details incestuous overtones in relations between Tom and Louisa Gradgrind in Hard Times.
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