Mark Celeste

asst prof of English @HSC1776 (he/him)

🌐 19C British novels and #networks | #oceanic studies / #bluehumanities | #postcolonialism | first-yr writing

[Mark Celeste @spectersofmarks]

Excited to be part of the latest issue of the Victorians Institute Journal! @victinjournal

Check out "Visualizing Mutuality: Teaching / Networks in _Our Mutual Friend_," where I get to showcase my students' stellar work in visualizing serial reading entanglements. Links below!

[Cakes & Ale @MrJohnWemmick]

Martin Amis on Dickens.

[Mark Celeste @spectersofmarks]

@KyrianaLynch Thanks so much for your kind words! I’m so glad you found it useful.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

What job would you have in Victorian London? a THREAD:

[Mark Celeste @spectersofmarks]

@aktange as others have mentioned, pretty much *all* of Dickens

Seacole's _Wonderful Adventures_

Stevenson's _Jekyll & Hyde_

[Mark Celeste @spectersofmarks]

@Will_Donnelly @JukedMagazine Congrats, Will! Best wishes for the new adventure.

[Mark Celeste @spectersofmarks]

Also, as @Miseri57 pointed out, "popularity" becomes a strikingly difficult metric to track when we account for public readings, circulating libraries, parodies, adaptations, etc.

In classic #Dickens fashion, a seemingly simple question spools out into a complex web! 2/2

[Mark Celeste @spectersofmarks]

Grateful for all the responses! A recap of potential candidates:
- Pickwick Papers (seems most likely)
- Christmas Carol
- Old Curiosity Shop
- Tale of Two Cities
- David Copperfield

Thanks again to @AbrahamAuthor @Jendeavour @reinboth @PhDhurtBrain & @SteveKills 1/2

[Mark Celeste @spectersofmarks]

Help me out, #Dickens twitter!

A student asked what was Dickens’s most popular novel during his lifetime.

Do we have a sense of which Dickens novel had the largest circulation — not just in original copies, but perhaps also in adaptations, parodies, plagiarized versions, etc?

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

V good.
'Why are we having a coronation, anyway? No other European monarchy bothers. ...There is no legal need for a coronation. Charles is king without it'

https://t.co/TbS7dv8BdI

[Mark Celeste @spectersofmarks]

@AbrahamAuthor Thanks! I figured the relative age of each work had something to do with it. And Pickwick does make sense, given how often subsequent 19C novels allude to it.

[Mark Celeste @spectersofmarks]

Help me out, #Dickens twitter!

A student asked what was Dickens’s most popular novel during his lifetime.

Do we have a sense of which Dickens novel had the largest circulation — not just in original copies, but perhaps also in adaptations, parodies, plagiarized versions, etc?

[Adam Brazil @adambrazil24]

Shoutout to my guys taking home some hardware from our banquet last night!

MIP: Ayman McGowan
DPOY: Josiah Hardy
OPOY: Davidson Hubbard
Best Rebounder: Alex Elliot
SOE: Harrison Taylor

Love these guys. Roll Tigers!

[Mark Celeste @spectersofmarks]

@Miseri57 @Dickens_Society @AbrahamAuthor Ah! I hadn’t even considered circulating libraries. The plot thickens.

[Mark Celeste @spectersofmarks]

@reinboth Thanks! A Christmas Carol was my initial thought too, if only for all of the subsequent work it generated. Important to distinguish between cultural impact and commercial success.

[Mark Celeste @spectersofmarks]

@Miseri57 @Dickens_Society @AbrahamAuthor Thanks! I figured the numbers would be difficult to track when we started looking beyond the original print run in Britain.

[Mark Celeste @spectersofmarks]

@Devo3000 @PhDhurtBrain Will do — thanks!

[Mark Celeste @spectersofmarks]

@PhDhurtBrain Classic Shady Charlie D

[Mark Celeste @spectersofmarks]

@Jendeavour Interesting! That wouldn’t have been my first guess. Thanks!

[Mark Celeste @spectersofmarks]

@deephomework If only!

[Mark Celeste @spectersofmarks]

@PhDhurtBrain Dombey and Sons and Lovers

[Mark Celeste @spectersofmarks]

@JeffreyInsko "To produce a mighty [class], you must choose a mighty theme."

Super cool, and so inspirational -- thanks for posting!