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!
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
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
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?
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
@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.
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?
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!
@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.
@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.