Peter Ackroyd's London as the backdrop to esoteric corners of the past and present.(LITERATURE)

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies | January 1, 2008| | Copyright

ABSTRACT

This article concerns Peter Ackroyd's depiction of London as an arcane labyrinth within which demarcation of the borderline between what is rationally, historically acknowledgeable and what is not is not only highly problematic but in fact undesirable. London, with its echoes of the past, with its people and mysteries, is envisaged as metapolis which exposes, through both its architecture and textual topography, hidden tropes leading to knowledge which spills beyond the knowable. Listening intently to the voices of various rationalists and scientists, as ...

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