The Companion to Our Mutual Friend (RLE Dickens): Routledge Library Editions: Charles Dickens Volume 4

by Michael Cotsell

Overview

Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) Dickens’ last completed novel, has been critically praised as a profound and troubled masterpiece, and yet is has received far less scholarly attention than his other major works. This volume is the first book-length study of the novel. It explores every aspect of Dickens’ sustained imaginative involvement with his age. In particular its original research into hitherto neglected sources reveals not only Dickens’ reactions to the important developments during the 1860s in education, finance and the administration of poverty, but also his interest in phenomena as diverse as waste collection and the Shakespeare tercentenary. The Companion to Our Mutual Friend demonstrates the varied resources of artistry that inform the novel, and it provides the reader with a fundamental source of information about one of Dickens’ most complex works.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135027650
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/13/2013
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Charles Dickens
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Cotsell, Michael

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. How to Use the Notes 3. The Notes 4. The Illustrations to Our Mutual Friend 5. Select Bibliography 6. Index