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 of Our Mutual Friend.” In Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, 161- 79. New York: Columbia University Press.

Shuman, Catherine. 1995. “Invigilating Our Mutual Friend: Gender and the Legitimation of Professional Authority.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 28, no. 2: 154-72.

Sicher, Efraim. 2003. “The Waste Land: Salvage and Salvation in Our Mutual Friend.” Rereading the City, Rereading Dickens: Representation, The Novel, and Urban Realism, 329-83. New York: AMS.

Simon, Leslie. 2011. “Bleak House, Our Mutual Friend, and the Aesthetics of Dust.” Dickens Studies Annual 42: 217-36.

Stearns, Precious McKenzie. 2012. “‘Sex and the City’: Charles Dickens’s Working Women in Martin Chuzzlewit and Our Mutual Friend.” English 61, no. 233: 137-50.

Stewart, Garrett. 2010. “The Ethical Tempo of Narrative Syntax: Sylleptic Recognitions in Our Mutual Friend.” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 8, no. 1: 119-45.

Stewart, Garrett. 2012. “The Ethics of Temporality – A Rejoinder Syllepsis Redux and the Rhetoric of Double Agency.” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 10, no. 1: 93-120.

Stewart, Garrett. 2013. “Lived Death: Dickens’s Rogue Glyphs.” In Dickens’s Style, edited by Daniel Tyler, 231-52. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Tambling, Jeremy. 1995. “The Scum of Humanity: Our Mutual Friend.” In Dickens, Violence and the Modern State: Dreams of the Scaffold, 186-233. New York: Macmillan.

Toker, Leona. 2006-2007. “Decadence and Renewal in Our Mutual Friend.” Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 16: 47-59.

Wallen, Jeffrey. 2011. “Twemlow’s Abyss.” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 9, no. 2: 391-403.

Wilkes, David. 2011. “The Mudworm’s Bower and Other Metropastoral Spaces: Chronotopes in Our Mutual Friend.” Dickens Studies Annual 42 : 295-330.

Winter, Sarah. 2011. “Learning by Heart in Our Mutual Friend.” In The Pleasures of Memory: Learning to Read with Charles Dickens, 226-69. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011.

Yeazell, Ruth Bernard. 1989. “Podsnappery, Sexuality, and the English Novel.” Critical Inquiry 9, no. 2: 339-57.

*Zigarovich, Jolene. 2012. “Epitaphic Representation in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend.” Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 43: 141-167. Rpt. As Zigarovich, Jolene. 2012. “Memorialization and Endlessness in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend.” In Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel: Engraved Narratives, 119-38. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Zirker, Angelika. 2011. “Physiognomy and the Reading of Character in Our Mutual Friend.” Partial Answers: Journal of the History of Ideas 9, no. 2: 379-90.