This Moodle course logs and enriches our class work on Charles Dickens's fascinating 1854 state-of-the-nation novel Hard Times. The manufacturing village of Coketown is the setting for a masterly depiction of the living standards of the working class and the oppression of commerce in England’s industrial heartland. Hard Times displays the moral impropriety and economic decadence that the Victorian Age is notable for... - (Year 12/2, April-June 2009) - Coach: Matthias Heil, Winfriedschule Fulda