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OUR MUTUAL ENGINE: THE ECONOMICS OF VICTORIAN THERMODYNAMICS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2013

Jessica Kuskey
Jessica Kuskey*
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Syracuse University
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Early on in Charles Dickens'sOur Mutual Friend (1865), the pair of characters Eugene Wrayburn and Mortimer Lightwood glibly recount the years they have spent doing nothing, with no business, no efforts, no cares. They have jobs – one is a barrister, the other a solicitor – but neither has done a scrap of work, ever.

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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 75 - 89
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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