SOURCE: “‘The Ring of Cant’: Formulaic Elements in Our Mutual Friend,” in Dickens Studies Annual, Vol. 24, 1996, pp. 167-84.
In the following essay, Edgecombe studies the “cant” often disparaged by critics of Our Mutual Friend, and suggests that this was part of a deliberate and highly-controlled strategy to reinforce the primary concerns of the author.
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