Dickens, hard times, great expectations, and our mutual friend

Grouping 'Hard Times', 'Great Expectations' and 'Our Mutual Friend' as important and widely studied'later novels' by Charles Dickens, this volume presents background material on the genesis of each novel, extracts from contemporary reviews and comments and studies by 20th century critics. The 20th century contributions include criticism by John Butt, Kathleen Tillotson, GK Chesterton, Philip Collins, Barbara Hardy, Humphry House, Arnold Kettle, Jack Lindsay, David Lodge, Martin Meisel, Julian Moynahan, Kenneth Muir, Norman Page, Robert B. Partlow Jnr. and GB Shaw.