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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 counterfactual, and Dickens fans’ creative responses.
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Charting the Crimean War: Contexts, Nationhood, Afterlives
The Crimean War (1853–56) is much more culturally significant than its popular mythologies suggest. Now remembered mainly for the Charge of the Light Brigade and the Lady with the Lamp, the Crimean War is a pivotal moment in the history of modern warfare seen as both the last of the old wars and first of the new. The first total war, it inaugurated new forms of weaponry, tactics, communication, war reporting, military medicine, and new attitudes towards soldiers. The introduction outlines this issue of 19’s case for the conflict’s wide-ranging significance, placing the Crimean War in the context of earlier and later nineteenth-century warfare, and considering its varied cultural afterlives.
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Charles Dickens in Context
Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens worked. Dickens's professional life encompassed work as a novelist, journalist, editor, public reader and passionate advocate of social reform. This volume offers a detailed treatment of Dickens in each of these roles, exploring the central features of Dickens's age, work and legacy, and uncovering sometimes surprising faces of the man and of the range of Dickens industries. Through 45 digestible short chapters written by a leading expert on each topic, a rounded picture emerges of Dickens's engagement with his time, the influence of his works and the ways he has been read, adapted and re-imagined from the nineteenth century to the present.
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Introduction: Dickens, Science and the Victorian Literary Imagination
In this introduction to the Dickens and Science issue of 19, Holly Furneaux and Ben Winyard consider the relationship between Dickens’s writing, science and the Victorian literary imagination. Dickens’s response to scientific ideas was very often at the heart of his cherished ideal that literature should show ‘the romantic side of familiar things’, illuminating the wonder, even magic, of everyday phenomena for people of all classes, and affectively uniting them by relieving a shared thirst for imaginative succour.
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Thinking Feeling at the Dickens Bicentenary
Dickens 2012 has been characterised by heart-felt responses to Dickens. In these ‘think pieces’ a number of scholars of Dickens and the Victorian period from the Victorian Studies Centre at the University of Leicester ruminate on the inflections of bi-centenary feeling: What are the politics, and aesthetics, of Dickensian feeling? How close are these to Dickens’s expressed aspirations for his work? Are there continuities with Victorian responses, and those at the 1912 centenary? Where is 2012 sentiment located culturally and nationally? How are feelings other than celebration registered and expressed? The short pieces that follow seek to open up these questions in a way that will, we hope, encourage further response and discussion.
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Children of the Regiment: Soldiers, Adoption, and Military Tenderness in Victorian Culture
Soldiers who take on the care of young children, such as Corporal Théophile of Dickens’s 1862 Christmas number “Somebody’s Luggage” and Major Jemmy Jackman who features in the Mrs. Lirriper Christmas numbers of 1863 and 1864, were considered amongst the many examples across Dickens’s fiction in which he explores an unmarried male’s desire to parent through plots of celebrated bachelor adoption. Was there not Private Valentine, in that very house, acting as sole housemaid, valet, cook, steward and nurse, in the family of his captain, Monsieur le Capitaine De la Cour—cleaning the floors, making the beds, doing the marketing, dressing the captain, dressing the dinners, dressing the salads and dressing the baby, all with equal readiness? (470) The romantically named Private Valentine (literally a military man of feeling) is placed in a context of regimental domesticity, with others of his troop similarly adept at housework, shop-keeping, and gardening. According to Kinglake, the Rifles were described by the grateful locals as “more strong than lions, more gentle than young lambs” (2:187). Similar behaviour was also observed during the Crimean War in other regiments, such as the 18th Irish, depicted in the assault on the Malakoff in a French painting (in the National Army Museum collection), which features a soldier feeding a baby from a bottle, while other members of the regiment get drunk or stand guard (“Episode de l’assaut de la Tour Malakoff”).
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