LECTURE 13

CHARLES DICKENS, Hard Times (1854)

II. Sowing and the Passage of Time
--metaphors of sun and fire (9, 17, 55)
--metaphors of temporality:
a. Celestial, agrarian Time as "The Great Manufacturer" of Change (Old Father Time) organic, cyclical (35, 39, 88, 92)
b. Man-made, industrial Time as "a deadly statistical clock," mechanical, linear, monotonous, the time that equals money (34, 92-93)

Dysfunctional Education
Dysfunctional Workplace (Chapter V + Chapter X
Dysfunctional Marriages (Homes)
ALL COMPONENTS OF DYSFUNCTIONAL SOCIETY

Sowing, Marriage, and Time
Stephen and Rachel vs His Wife, the "bad seed" (“'Tis a' a muddle”) 70, 74
Louisa and Bounderby (“What does it matter?”) 94-95, 96, 97-98.

Hopes of Reform?
Utilitarian reason, statistics = OUT
What possible model to replace it?

Book the Second: Reaping
Dysfunctional Education?

Dysfunctional Workplace?
1.Republican Fraternity/Unionism? Chap. IV: 131 "Men and Brothers"
Romantic Poets (Wordsworth, Shelley)
Union Organizers (Slackbridge)
Stephen Blackpool: individual difference 133, 134
Problem = conformity (fascism) = violence to individual

2. Sleary's Circus as benign paternalism? [to be continued]