Doing the Novel in Different Voices: Reflections on a Dickensian Twitter Experiment

Abstract

This article reflects upon the ‘Our Mutual Friend Tweets’ experiment, a collaborative project in which participants re-enacted the voices of Dickensian characters on Twitter. The article considers the ways in which disciplines of reading, performance, and technology have intersected over the course of the project to provide a fresh, ‘crowdsourced’ approach to Dickens’s final completed novel.