« A Flight », de Charles Dickens (1851), récit de voyage ?
This paper is centred on « A Flight », an article published by Dickens in Household Words in 1851, the narrative of a train journey from London to Paris. Dickens’s article is published today by Penguin both as a piece of journalism (in Selected Journalism) and as a piece of fiction (in Selected Shor...
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| description | This paper is centred on « A Flight », an article published by Dickens in Household Words in 1851, the narrative of a train journey from London to Paris. Dickens’s article is published today by Penguin both as a piece of journalism (in Selected Journalism) and as a piece of fiction (in Selected Short Fiction), which raises the question of the genre(s) to which it belongs. This paper aims at showing that far from being a classic travel narrative offering a modicum of objectivity, « A Flight » shows us how fiction is created when a hyper-active narrator uses every exterior detail as a pretext to the expression of his creative energy. In Dickens’s text, the aim of the train journey, France, is portrayed as a fictional place where imagination can truly express itself and even run wild. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ee48b403c25e4052a4fe5635bbfd613c2025-01-30T10:21:53ZengPresses Universitaires de la MéditerranéeCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens0220-56102271-61492012-06-017514515810.4000/cve.1659« A Flight », de Charles Dickens (1851), récit de voyage ?Isabelle Hervouet-FarrarThis paper is centred on « A Flight », an article published by Dickens in Household Words in 1851, the narrative of a train journey from London to Paris. Dickens’s article is published today by Penguin both as a piece of journalism (in Selected Journalism) and as a piece of fiction (in Selected Short Fiction), which raises the question of the genre(s) to which it belongs. This paper aims at showing that far from being a classic travel narrative offering a modicum of objectivity, « A Flight » shows us how fiction is created when a hyper-active narrator uses every exterior detail as a pretext to the expression of his creative energy. In Dickens’s text, the aim of the train journey, France, is portrayed as a fictional place where imagination can truly express itself and even run wild.https://journals.openedition.org/cve/1659Dickens (Charles)A FlightfictionFranceHousehold Wordsjournalism |
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