Literary Response to the Industrial Revolution

• William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Excursion, 1814 
• Charles Dickens: Hard Times, Chapter 2 
• Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist
• Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton - A tale of Manchester life
• Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South
• Elizabeth Gaskell: Cranford
• Thomas Carlyle: Signs of the Times: The "Mechanical Age
• Emile Zola (1840-1902): Germinal, 1885, extracts
• Émile Zola: Germinal, 1885 Translated by Havelock Ellis (1894), full text with Study Guide
• Andrew Carnegie (1835­1919): The Gospel of Wealth, 1889