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Selected Bibliography on Our Mutual Friend for the 2014 Dickens Universe August 3-9 UC Santa Cruz Selected Bibliography on Our Mutual Friend for the 2014 Dickens Universe August 3-9 UC Santa Cruz (*starred items are strongly recommended) Reference Works Cotsell, Michael. 1986. The Companion to Our Mutual Friend. Boston: Allen & Unwin; rpt. New York: Routledge, 2009. Brattin, Joel J., and Bert. G. Hornback, eds. 1984. Our Mutual Friend: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland. Heaman, Robert J. 2003. “Our Mutual Friend: An Annotated Bibliography: Supplement I, 1984-2000.” Dickens Studies Annual 33: 425-514. Selected articles and chapters Allen, Michelle Elizabeth. 2008. “A More Expansive Reach: The Geography of the Thames in Our Mutual Friend.” In Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London, ch. 2. Athens: Ohio University Press. Alter, Robert. 1996. “Reading Style in Dickens.” Philosophy and Literature 20, no. 1: 130-7. Arac, Jonathan. 1979. “The Novelty of Our Mutual Friend.” In Commissioned Spirits: The Shaping of Social Motion in Dickens, Carlyle, Melville, and Hawthorne, 164-185. New York: Columbia University Press. Baumgarten, Murray. 2000. “The Imperial Child: Bella, Our Mutual Friend, and the Victorian Picturesque.” In Dickens and the Children of Empire, edited by Wendy S. Jacobson, 54-66. New York: Palgrave. Baumgarten, Murray. 2002. “Boffin, Our Mutual Friend, and the Theatre of Fiction.” Dickens Quarterly 19: 17-22. Bodenheimer, Rosemarie. 2002. “Dickens and the Identical Man: Our Mutual Friend Doubled.” Dickens Studies Annual 31: 159-174. Boehm, Katharina. 2013. “Monstrous Births and Saltationism in Our Mutual Friend and Popular Anatomical Museums.” In Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture, ch. 5. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Brattin, Joel J. 2002. “Constancy, Change, and the Dust Mounds of Our Mutual Friend.” Dickens Quarterly 19, no. 1 (2002): 23-30. Buckland, Adelene. 2009. “‘Pictures in the Fire’: The Dickensian Hearth and the Concept of History.” Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 53 (February). Carlisle, Janice. 2004. “Treating the Melancholic of Our Mutual Friend.” In Common Scents: Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian Fiction, 115-48. New York: Oxford University Press. Cheadle, Brian. 2001. “The Late Novels: Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend.” In The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens, edited by John O. Jordan, 78-91. New York: Cambridge University Press. Cheadle, Brian. 2001. “Work in Our Mutual Friend.” Essays in Criticism 51, no. 3: 308-29. Cheadle, Brian. 2009. “Improvising Character in Our Mutual Friend.” Essays in Criticism 59, no. 3: 211-33. Colón, Susan E. 2012. “‘The Agent of a Superior’: Stewardship Parables in Our Mutual Friend.” In Victorian Parables, 93-120. New York: Continuum. Creaney, Conor. 2010. “Paralytic Animation: The Anthropomorphic Taxidermy of Walter Potter.” Victorian Studies 53, no. 1: 7-35. David, Deirdre. 1981. Fictions of Resolution in Three Victorian Novels: North and South, Daniel Deronda, and Our Mutual Friend. New York: Columbia University Press. DeMarcus, Cynthia. 1995. “Wolves Within and Without: Dickens’s Transformation of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ in Our Mutual Friend.” Dickens Quarterly 12, no. 1: 11-17. Dewey, Vincent. 1996. “Our Mutual Friend: Retrospective and Reform.” In The Scriptures of Charles Dickens: Novels of Ideology, Novels of the Self, ch. 6. Burlingon, VT: Ashgate. Ernst, Marlene. 2013. Victorian London: die englische Metropole aus der Sicht von Charles Dickens “Our Mutual Friend.” AV Akadamieverlag. Farrell, John. 1999. “The Partners’ Tale: Dickens and Our Mutual Friend.” ELH 66, no. 3: 759-99. Fontana, Ernest. 2005. “Darwinian Sexual Selection and Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend.” Dickens Quarterly 22, no. 1: 36-42. *Gallagher, Catherine. 2006. “The Bioeconomics of Our Mutual Friend.” In The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel, 86- 117. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Ginsburg, Michal Peled. 1996. “The Case against Plot in Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend.” In Economies of Change: Form and Transformation in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, 138-56. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Ginsburg, Michal Peled. 2005. “Dickens and the Scene of Recognition.” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 3, no. 2: 75-97. Grass, Sean. 2014. Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend: A Publishing History. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. Harrison, Bernard. 2011. “Always Fiction?: The Limits of Authorial License in Our Mutual Friend.” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 9, no. 2: 405- 30. Heaman, Robert J. 2004. “Hebraism and Hellenism in Our Mutual Friend.” Dickens Quarterly 221, no. 1: 3-11. Hecimovich, Gregg A. 2008. “The Cup and the Lip and the Riddle of Our Mutual Friend.” In Puzzling the Reader: Riddles in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, ch. 3. New York: Peter Lang. (First published in ELH 62 (1995): 955-77.) Henelly, Mark M., Jr. 1995. “‘Toy Wonders’ in Our Mutual Friend.” Dickens Quartely 12, no. 2: 60-72 and 12, no. 3: 95-107. Hornback, Bert. 2008. “Mortimer Lightwood.” Dickens Studies Annual 39: 249-60. Hutter, Albert D. 1983. “Dismemberment and Articulation in Our Mutual Friend.” Dickens Studies Annual 11: 135-175. Jaffe, Audrey. 1987. “Omniscience in Our Mutual Friend: On Taking the Reader by Surprise.” The Journal of Narrative Technique 17, no. 1: 91-101. James, Stephen. 2012. “Repetition, Rumination, and Superstition: The Rituals of Our Mutual Friend.” English 61, no. 234: 214-33. Jarvie, Paul A. 2005. “‘Among the dying and the dead’: Metonymy and Finance Capitalism in Our Mutual Friend.” In Ready to Trample on All Human Law: Financial Capitalism in the Fiction of Charles Dickens, 115-46. New York: Routledge. King, James Roy. 1995. “Defense Mechanisms in Our Mutual Friend.” Dickens Quarterly 12, no. 2: 45-59. *Kuskey, Jessica. 2013. “Our Mutual Engine: The Economics of Victorian Thermodynamics.” Victorian Literature and Culture 41: 75-89. Larson, Janet L. 1985. “Dying unto Death: Biblical Ends and Endings in Our Mutual Friend.” In Dickens and the Broken Scripture, 279-312. Athens: University of Georgia Press. Ledger, Sally. 2011. “Dickens, Natural History, and Our Mutual Friend.” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 9, no. 2: 363-78. Litvack, Leon. 2008. “Our Mutual Friend.” In A Companion to Charles Dickens, edited by David Paroissien, 433-43. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008. Livesey, Ruth. 2010. “Money, Manhood and Sufferage in Our Mutual Friend.” In Culture, Capital and Representation, edited by Robert J. Balfour, 83-99. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. MacKay, Carol. 1989. “The Encapsulated Romantic: John Harmon and the Boundaries of Victorian Soliloquy.” Dickens Studies Annual 18: 255-276. *Michie, Helena. 1989. “‘Who is this in pain?’: Scarring, Disfigurement, and Female Identity in ‘Bleak House’ and ‘Our Mutual Friend.’” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 22, no. 3: 199- 212. Morgentaler, Goldie. 2005. “Dickens and the Scattered Identity of Silas Wegg.” Dickens Quarterly 22, no. 2: 92-100. Nord, Deborah Epstein. 2011. “Dickens’s ‘Jewish Question’: Pariah Capitalism and the Way Out.” Victorian Literature and Culture 29: 27-45. Paroissien, David. 2004. “Ideology, Pedagogy, and Demonology: The Case against Industrialized Education in Dickens’s Fiction.” Dickens Studies Annual 34: 259-82. Peters, Laura. 2013. “Fancy, Cosmopolitanism, and Racial Difference: Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” In Dickens and Race, 123-61. New York: Manchester University Press. Poon, Phoebe. 2011. “Trust and Conscience in Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend.” Dickens Quarterly 28, no. 1: 3-21. Poovey, Mary. 1995. “Speculation and Virtue in Our Mutual Friend.” In Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864, 155-82. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Rainsford, Dominic. 2010. “Victorian Moral Philosophy and Our Mutual Friend.” Dickens Quarterly 27, no. 4: 273-91. Reed, John R. 2006. “The Riches of Redundancy: Our Mutual Friend.” Studies in the Novel 38, no. 1: 15-35. Ridenhour, Jamieson. 2005. “‘In that Boney Light’: The Bakhtinian Gothic of Our Mutual Friend.” Dickens Quarterly 22, no. 3: 153-72. *Romano, John. 1978. “Form in the Realist Novel: War and Peace and Our Mutual Friend.” In Dickens and Reality, ch. 1. New York: Columbia University Press. Rose, Nathalie. 2005. “Flogging and Fascination: Dickens and the Fragile Will.” Victorian Studies 44, no. 4: 505-33. Rothenberg, Molly Anne. 2004. “Articulating Social Agency in Our Mutual Friend: Problems with Performances, Practices, and Political Efficacy.” ELH 71, no. 3: 719-49. *Royle, Nicholas. 1996. “Our Mutual Friend.” In Dickens Refigured: Bodies, Desires and Other Histories, edited by John Schad, 39-54. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Rudy, Seth. 2006. “Performance and Theatricality in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend.” Dickens Studies Annual 37: 65-80. Salotto, Eleanor. 2006. “Shadowing the Dead: First Person Narration in Our Mutual Friend.” In Gothic Returns in Collins, Dickens, Zola, and Hitchcock, 61-80. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. *Schaffer, Talia. 2011. “Salvage: Betty as the Mutual Friend.” In Novel Craft: Victorian Domestic Handicraft and Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 119-44. New York: Oxford University Press. *Schor, Hillary. 1999. “Our Mutual Friend and the Daughter’s Book of the Dead.” In Dickens and the Daughter of the House, 178-207. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. *Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 1985. “Homophobia, Misogyny, and Capital: The Example
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