Peter Ackroyd (b. 1947) in internationally celebrated as a novelist
and also well known as poet, biographer and reviewer. He came to
public notice after the publication of his award-winning novel,
Hawksmoor (1985), a thrilling historiographic metafiction that
combines the horror of an 18th-century gothic tale of ritual murder
with the suspense of a 20th-century detective story. A most
versatile and prolific writer, Ackroyd sees his different writing
activities as part of the same overall attempt to revitalise the
English cultural tradition. In the first book-length study to date,
Susana Onega's assessment of Ackroyd's literary identify treads the
entire range of his writings. Topics covered by the book include
Ackroyd's fictional treatment of London, his recovery of the
English Catholic cultural tradition; his self-conscious re-writing
of history; and the way in which the multilayered interplay of form
and meaning in the novels works to enhance the fictionality of the
created world while simultaneously suggesting a paradoxical
yearning for mythical closure.
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