A Horror and a Beauty : the World of Peter Ackroyd's London Novels.

Cover -- Contents -- Cue-Titles -- Introduction: Power, Majesty, Darkness, Shadows -- Chapter 1 Ackroyd's London, Past and Present -- London and the English Literary Sensibility -- Ackroyd, History and the Historical Novel -- Ackroyd's London Chronotope -- Chapter 2 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 Dies, or Making the Dead Speak - the Magic of the Imagination -- Chapter 3 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 -- Chapter 4 Psychogeographic and Antiquarian London -- Psychogeography -- Ackroyd's Psychogeographic Antiquarianism -- Two Related Concepts -- London of the Mind -- Ackroyd's Lonely Londoners -- Ackroyd's Walkers -- Chapter 5 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 -- Chapter 6 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 -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Index.

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