Peter Ackroyd’s Representation of the Past: London as a Site of Memory

Peter Ackroyd’s work strives to circumvent the English literary tradition. Ackroyd’s representation of the past is subjected to the representation of London since this is where this tradition dwells. This constraint irremediably links the work’s to the referential city’s form, which makes it necessa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sophie Cartier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2005-11-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/13810