The Companion to Our Mutual Friend (RLE Dickens)
Routledge Library Editions: Charles Dickens Volume 4
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The Companion to Our Mutual Friend (RLE Dickens)
Routledge Library Editions: Charles Dickens Volume 4
About This Book
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.
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Our Mutual Friend
Sir James Emerson Tennent [Dedication]
Book the First. The Cup and the Lip.
Book 1, Chapter 1: On the Look Out.
May 1864
In these times of ours
1.1 | āan autumn eveningā | Year 1 |
1.10 | āgreenhouse plantsā for the Lammlesā wedding | |
1.12 | ānipping springā | Year 2 |
1.17 | āthe blooming summer daysā | |
2.1 | āAutumn ā¦ full half a year had come and gone since the bird of prey lay deadā: Gaffer died in the spring (1.14) | |
2.12 | āNot ā¦ a summer evening ā¦ a cold shrewd windy eveningā | |
2.16 | āthe first anniversary of the happy marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Lammleā | |
3.1 | āa foggy day in Londonā | |
3.9 | āthe bright wintry sceneā | |
4.1 | āan evening in the summer timeā | Year 3 |
4.4 | Bella teils John that she is pregnant | |
4.12 | āthe ship upon the ocean ā¦ brought a baby-Bellaā and it is again āa winte eveningā | Year 4 |
4.15 | āOne winter dayā |
The figures in this boat
Allied to the bottom of the river
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- General Preface by the Editors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations for Dickensās Works and Related Material
- Bibliographical Symbols and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- A Note on the Text
- How to Use the Notes
- The Notes
- The Illustrations to Our Mutual Friend
- Select Bibliography
- Index