WHEN CHARLES DICKENS ENTERS THE HOUSE OF FICTION: PETER CAREY'S JACK MAGGS AND JOSEPH O'CONNOR'S STAR OF THE SEA

Armelle Parey (1)

1 ERIBIA - Équipe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la Grande-Bretagne, l'Irlande et l'Amérique du Nord

is probably THE Victorian novelist posterity remembers best, or at least the most, to the extent that he also occasionally appears as a character of fi ction. Part of his private life is thus rewritten in Peter Carey's Jack Maggs (1997) which also dwells on his activity as a writer, pretending to account for the circumstances of the writing of Great Expectations. Dickens has also appeared in Joseph O'Connor's Star of the Sea (2002), where circumstances for his writing are emphasized too. This paper is thus a modest attempt at assessing these fi ctional representations of Charles Dickens in today's novels.

Domaines: Littératures

Armelle Parey. WHEN CHARLES DICKENS ENTERS THE HOUSE OF FICTION: PETER CAREY'S JACK MAGGS AND JOSEPH O'CONNOR'S STAR OF THE SEA. Odisea, Revista de estudios ingleses, 2017, 9, ⟨10.25115/odisea.v0i9.206⟩. ⟨hal-03070663⟩