Interview with Michael Hollington, the Anti-Specialist

NATALIE MCKNIGHT is Professor of Humanities and Dean of the College of General Studies at Boston University. She is the author of Idiots, Madmen and Other Prisoners in Dickens; Suffering Mothers in Mid-Victorian Novels; and Fathers in Victorian Fiction and is coeditor of Dickens Studies Annual.

MICHAEL HOLLINGTON is a retired Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He held chairs in France and Australia, and tenured positions in Britain and Norway. He has taught as a visiting professor on almost every continent. He is principally a Dickensian but has published widely on English and European literature, from Shakespeare on.