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    When Charles Dickens enters the house of fiction: Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs and Joseph O’connor’s Star of the Sea

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    URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1279
    ISSN: 1578-3820
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i9.206
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    Parey, Armelle
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    2008
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    Charles Dickens 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 fictional representations of Charles Dickens in today’s novels. Charles Dickens probablemente es EL novelista victoriano que la posteridad mejor recuerda, o al menos, al que más recuerda, hasta el punto de que ocasionalmente aparece como un personaje de ficción. Así, un parte de su vida privada está reescrita en la novela Jack Maggs de Peter Carey (1997) que también se concentra en su actividad como escritor, fi ngiendo explicar las...
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    Charles Dickens
    Peter Carey
    Joseph O’Connor
    rewriting
    Postmodern novels
    self-refl exivity
    reescritura
    novelas postmodernas
    autoreflexión
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