Peter Ackroyd by Susana Onega - 9780746308394

Peter AckroydAuthor(s): Susana Onega\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9780746308394, 978-0746308394\nSynopsis\nPeter 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 [tel], 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 Onegas assessment of Ackroyds literary identify treads the entire range of his writings. Topics covered by the book include Ackroyds fictional treatment of London, his recovery of the English Catholic cultu.