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A horror and a beauty : the world of Peter Ackroyd's London novels /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chalupský, Petr (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Prague : Karolinum Press, a Publishing Department of Charles University in Prague, 2016.
Edición:First English edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Power, Majesty, Darkness, Shadows
  • Ackroyd's London, past and present: London and the English literary sensibility
  • Ackroyd, history and the historical novel
  • Ackroyd's London chronotope
  • Uncanny London: London the obscure
  • Wandering and wondering in eternity, mythical time
  • Where suffering seems to linger, genius loci
  • Variety, energy and darkness, Cockney visionaries
  • Poets of power and darkness, Ackroyd's occultists
  • The divine spark that never sies, or making the dead speak, the magic of the imagination
  • Felonious London: Serial killings and the London gothic psychothriller
  • Crime re-written
  • Assuming a story, the narrative of detection
  • London confined
  • Vivifying crimes, vivifying the city
  • Psychogeographic and antiquarian London: Psychogeography
  • Ackroyd's psychogeographic antiquarianism
  • Two related concepts
  • London of the mind
  • Ackroyd's lonely Londoners
  • Ackroyd's walkers
  • Theatrical London: "Where pathos and pantomime meet"
  • London as a stage and the stage as London in Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
  • The might and glory of the city celebrated, The Clerkenwell Tales
  • The horrific, the spectacular and the sublime
  • Literary London: The necessity of imitation, the counterfeiting and metafictional London of Chatterton
  • When William met Mary: London as a palimpsest in The Lambs of London
  • Towards autobiographic self-referencing: literary London in Three Brothers
  • Conclusion: Longing and belonging.