The Politics of Economic Power and Exclusion: A Critique of Charles Dickens's Hard Times
Sandeep Kumar Sharma
- Pages
- pp. 75-81
- Published
- April 1, 2012
Sandeep Kumar Sharma (2012). The Politics of Economic Power and Exclusion: A Critique of Charles Dickens's Hard Times. Labyrinth, 3(2), 75-81.
Abstract
The present paper is an attempt to scrutinize the relevance of Foucauldian concept of Power/Knowledge Discourse in Dickens's celebrated novel Hard Times (1854). It will be very significant to mention here that Hard Times belongs to the Victorian era after the Industrial Revolution in England. So far, this text has been analyzed from the traditional point of view by critics. For example, Percy Marshall says that Hard Times is “a savage attack on Capitalism and on those who kept on working in the general disadvantage and in defiance of the laws of charity” (Marshall 42)
Keywords:William ShakespeareMacbethSubalternsPostcolonialism


