Abstract:

This article examines the representation of the flâneur in Dickens's two journals, Household Words and All the Year Round. It specifically considers the named figure itself, in part to restore some definitional clarity to a term that is often used loosely, and in such a variety of ways that it has begun to "seem hollow," in the words of one historian of the concept. This named version of the flâneur as it appears in the journals is a satiric one, harkening back to the popular sketch journalism of the 1830s and 1840s with its emphasis on humorous urban stereotypes, painted with broad strokes, and usually treated with gentle mockery. Perhaps the most immediate inspiration for Dickens's journals, though, is the comic persona known as "the London Idler," which was popularized in a series of "chapters" published in Punch in late 1842.

摘要：

本文考察了狄更斯的两本期刊，《住家的话》和《全年无休》中的代表。它专门考虑了已命名的图形本身，部分是为了恢复对经常使用的术语的定义的清晰度，并且以各种方式使用，以致该概念的一位历史学家说它已开始“显得空心”。 。这款法式薄脆饼干的命名版本正如在期刊中出现的那样，这是一种讽刺性的文章，追溯到1830年代和1840年代流行的速写新闻学，其重点是幽默的城市刻板印象，用粗笔描画，并且通常以轻描淡写的态度对待。也许，狄更斯的期刊最直接的灵感来自被称为“伦敦·爱德勒”的漫画人物，该人物在1842年末的《冲锋》中出版的一系列“章节”中得到了广泛的应用。