The Ghosts of the Gothic in Peter Ackroyd's Literary London

Ashleigh Jayne Prosser

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The Ghosts of the Gothic in Peter Ackroyd's Literary London

Ashleigh Jayne Prosser

School of Humanities

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This study proposes a Gothic theory of the history of place at work within Peter Ackroyd's literary depictions of London, wherein history and geography are fused together to form a palimpsest that is symbolically manifested through spatial hauntings, textual traces, and uncanny returns. It examines the commonalities between four of Ackroyd's historiographic metafictions set in
London: Hawksmoor (1985), The House of Doctor Dee (1993), Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994 ), and The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (2008). The study performs a close textual analysis of the novels alongside Ackroyd's London histories, reading them through the framework of the Gothic mode.

Original language	English
Qualification	Doctor of Philosophy
Awarding Institution	The University of Western Australia
Supervisors/Advisors	Dolin, Kieran, Supervisor Hughes-D'Aeth, Tony, Supervisor
Thesis sponsors	Australian Government Research Training Program
Award date	1 Nov 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.26182/16ga-qq67
Publication status	Unpublished - 2017

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2 Chapter
2 Article
1 Book/Film/Article review

"Here we are again!": Neo-Gothic Narratives of Textual Haunting, from Peter Ackroyd's Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem to The Limehouse Golem
Prosser, A., Mar 2020, Neo-Gothic Narratives: Illusory Allusions from the Past. Maier, S. E. & Ayres, B. (eds.). London: Anthem Press, p. 91-108 18 p. (Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter › peer-review
Resurrecting Frankenstein: Peter Ackroyd’s The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein and the metafictional monster within
Prosser, A., Sept 2019, In: The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture. 8, 2, p. 179-196 18 p., 3.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
No place like home: The chronotope of the haunted house in Peter Ackroyd's The House of Doctor Dee
Prosser, A., 2015, In: Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies. 2, 1, p. 1-19 19 p., 1.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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"Here we are again!": Neo-Gothic Narratives of Textual Haunting, from Peter Ackroyd's Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem to The Limehouse Golem

Resurrecting Frankenstein: Peter Ackroyd’s The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein and the metafictional monster within

No place like home: The chronotope of the haunted house in Peter Ackroyd's The House of Doctor Dee

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