Chapter 1 is adapted from “Caught in Time: Performance and Spectatorship in Our Mutual Friend,” published in Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction vol. 50, no. 2, 2019, pages 295–363. doi:
I’m very grateful to Natalie McKnight, Edward Guiliano, and the other Co-Editors of Dickens Studies Annual for encouragement over the years that led to the writing of this book. Their support really is much appreciated. Thank you also to all at Brill, including the anonymous reviewers, and Peter Buschman and his team, for seeing merit in the book and working so constructively to bring it to publication.
Warm thanks to Professors Hirabayashi Mitoko and Wakayama Masayuki, as well as Ando Yohei, Wakasugi Maaya, and those at Aichi Shukutoku University past and present to whom I owe so much. And love and thanks for everything to Noriko and my family, East and West.