Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Baker, Robert S. “Imagination and Literacy in Dickens' Our Mutual Friend.” Criticism 18, no. 1 (Winter 1976): 57-72.

Examines the connection between literacy and the moral issues Dickens addressed in the novel.

Cotsell, Michael. “Secretary or Sad Clerk? The Problem with John Harmon.” Dickens Quarterly 1, no. 4 (December 1984): 130-36.

Suggests that Dickens had two contradictory intentions for the character of John Harmon: one as the resourceful, capable man, and the other as the sad, defeated child.

Hutter, Albert D. “Dismemberment and Articulation in Our Mutual Friend.” Dickens Studies Annual 11 (1983): 135-75.

Studies the Victorian fascination with mutilation and dismemberment and the way they are represented in Our Mutual Friend.

Jaffe, Audrey. “Omniscience in Our Mutual Friend: On Taking the Reader by...

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