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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Main Author: Holly Furneaux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2015-12-01
Series:19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Online Access:http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/751
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spelling doaj-29f5dc6f9a884c5c835ac5e80e4fa7be2021-06-02T07:25:37ZengOpen Library of Humanities19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century1755-15602015-12-0120152110.16995/ntn.751667Mortimer Lightwood; or, Seriality, Counterfactuals, Co-Production, and Queer FantasyHolly Furneaux0Cardiff UniversityIn 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>http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/751
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description 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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