This monograph undertakes the first extensive comparative analysis
of the works of Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd, placing the
fiction and non-fiction of both writers in relation to the broader
cultural, social and political contexts of London from 1979. It
begins by tracing the two different Londons of both writers,
arguing that their literary and cultural projects are intrinsically
linked, yet have remained under explored in academic criticism.
Alex Murray argues that while both Sinclair and Ackroyd attempt to
utilise radical narrative practices to challenge the dominant
historical discourses within contemporary London, those challenges
must be placed in relation to broader issues of cultural history,
government appropriation of historical narratives and debates about
the relationship between literature and the city. This argument is
traced from the 'radical' historical fiction of the 1980s which
launched the career of both writers, through to their extensive
bodies of work on creating a specifically London form of literary
history, to their engagements towards the turn of the millennium
with larger questions of historiography and material history. This
study then links these issues of narrative and material history,
demonstrating the increasingly problematic relationship that both
writers have as their fictionally 'radical' recalling of London is
transformed into issues of material history, primarily the issues
of politics and ethics in historical representation, and the
relationship between history and commodification.
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