SOURCE: “Savages in a ‘Bran-New’ World: Carlyle and Our Mutual Friend,” in Studies in the Novel, Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer, 1978, pp. 199-217.
In the following essay, Qualls suggests that Thomas Carlyle's vocabulary, stock characters, and social concerns strongly influenced Dickens's writing of Our Mutual Friend.
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