Blackpool on the Picket Line: Hard Times Goes Viral in Nineteenth-Century America
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DOI: 10.1353/sdn.2017.0002
Abstract: Abstract: Tracing the reception of Charles Dickens’s Hard Times and its doomed millworker Stephen Blackpool through nineteenth-century American print culture, the essay shows how a conservative text and character were radicalized and repurposed to suit… read more here.
Keywords: hard times; nineteenth century; picket line; blackpool picket ... See more keywords