Our Mutual Friend, Dickens's last completed novel, has been praised as a profound and troubled masterpiece, yet it has received far less scholarly attention than his other major works. First published in 1986, this title presents a comprehensive treatment of the novel. It explores every aspect of Dickens's sustained imaginative engagement with his age, revealing not only Dickens's 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 vast range of literary allusion is identified, as are...
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Our Mutual Friend, Dickens's last completed novel, has been praised as a profound and troubled masterpiece, yet it has received far less scholarly attention than his other major works. First published in 1986, this title presents a comprehensive treatment of the novel. It explores every aspect of Dickens's sustained imaginative engagement with his age, revealing not only Dickens's 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 vast range of literary allusion is identified, as are the major influences of other writers. Michael Cotsell thus conclusively demonstrates the varied resources of artistry that invigorate the novel, and it provides for the modern scholar, the student and the general reader a fundamental source of information about one of Dickens's most complex, yet least appreciated, works.
- ISBN10 1138778958
- ISBN13 9781138778955
- Publish Date 30 May 2014 (first published 10 July 1986)
- Publish Status Withdrawn
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 316
- Language English