There have been well over 100 articles, books, and book chapters published on Our Mutual Friend since the initial 1998 launch of the Scholarly Pages—a true testament to the book’s longevity, and appeal to the world of Victorian scholarship.
This section of the site provides a collection of articles originally written for the Scholarly Pages, a bibliography of classic and recent criticism, and an interview with Dickens Project faculty member Helena Michie on what Our Mutual Friend means for readers today.
Our Mutual Friend Today: An Interview with Helena Michie
The following interview was conducted by the editors shortly after the BBC U.S. Broadcast of Our Mutual Friend in January of 1998.
A Selected Bibliography
Resources on the editions of the novel from 1864-1868, classic criticism, modern criticism, and film and television adaptations.
“Seeing Double: Jewish Isolation in Oliver Twist and Our Mutual Friend
A longer version of this article appears in Between “Race” and Culture: Representations of “the Jew” in English and American Literature, ed. Bryan Cheyette. Stanford: Stanford University Press: 1996.
“Completing the Circle: The Victorian Sanitary Movement, Our Mutual Friend, and Narrative Closure”
A paper originally delivered at the Dickens Project Winter Conference, UC Davis, February 19-21, 1999.
“Narrating Self-Creation: John Harmon’s Soliloquy in Our Mutual Friend“
A longer version of this article appears as a chapter in Carol MacKay’s Soliloquy in Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Consciousness Creating Itself. London: Macmillan, and Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1987.