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A horror and a beauty : the world of Peter Ackroyd's London novels /
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Prague :
Karolinum Press, a Publishing Department of Charles University in Prague,
2016.
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| Édition: | First English edition. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.