SOURCE: “Realism, Rhetoric, and Reification: Or the Case of the Missing Detective in Our Mutual Friend,” in Modern Philology, Vol. 86, No. 1, August, 1988, pp. 34-45.
In the following essay, Solomon discusses the critical controversy surrounding two confusing plot lines within Our Mutual Friend: the one involving John Harmon's “death” and the one involving Noddy Boffin's feigned change of character.
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