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Mortimer Lightwood; or, Seriality, Counterfactuals, Co-Production, and Queer Fantasy

Author(s) -

Holly Furneaux

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

19 interdisciplinary studies in the long nineteenth century

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1755-1560

DOI - 10.16995/ntn.751

Subject(s) - queer , reading (process) , fantasy , counterfactual conditional , literature , counterfactual thinking , art , queer theory , reflection (computer programming) , visual arts , aesthetics , psychoanalysis , psychology , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , epistemology , programming language

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.

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