Mortimer Lightwood; or, Seriality, Counterfactuals, Co-Production, and Queer Fantasy
In this reflection on her participation as Mortimer Lightwood in Birkbeck’s Our Mutual Friend Twitter reading project, Holly Furneaux situates the project in a long legacy of actively reading Dickens’s works. She opens up some possibilities about the queer potentials of the serial form, the counterf...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2015-12-01
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| Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
| Online Access: | http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/751 |
| Summary: | In this reflection on her participation as Mortimer Lightwood in Birkbeck’s Our Mutual Friend Twitter reading project, Holly Furneaux situates the project in a long legacy of actively reading Dickens’s works. She opens up some possibilities about the queer potentials of the serial form, the counterfactual, and Dickens fans’ creative responses.<strong></strong> |
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| ISSN: | 1755-1560 |