SOURCE: "Hard Times: The News and the Novel," in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 32, No. 1, June, 1977, pp. 166-87.
In the following essay, Butwin examines Hard Times as a novel of social reform and compares it with social-reform journalism of the period.
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