SOURCE: “Dickens and Our Mutual Friend: Fancy as Self-Preservation,” in Etudes Anglaises, Vol. 38, No. 3, July-September, 1985, pp. 257-65.
In the following essay, Collins examines the therapeutic quality of Dickens's use of fancy and imagination in Our Mutual Friend, and suggests that this is reflective of the author's preoccupation with his own dwindling creative powers.
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