"Fairy Palaces" and "Wonderful Toys": Machine Dreams in Household Words (Critical Essay)
Dickens Quarterly 2008, Dec, 25, 4
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Publisher Description
Technological production, at the beginning, was in the grip of dreams. Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, 152. In the second serial installment of Hard Times, published as the leader in Household Words on 8 April 1854, Dickens "strike[s] the keynote" with his memorable description of Coketown:
GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2008
December 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
28
Pages
PUBLISHER
Dickens Society of America
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
SIZE
218.7
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