When William Met Mary: The rewriting of Mary Lamb's and William-Henry Ireland's Stories in Peter Ackroyd's The Lambs of London

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

When William Met Mary: The rewriting of Mary Lamb's and William-Henry Ireland's Stories in Peter Ackroyd's The Lambs of London

Original language description

Peter Ackroyd's London novels represent a distinctive component in his project of composing a literary-historical biography of the city. Understanding London as a multilayered palimpsest of texts, Ackroyd adds to this ongoing process by rewriting the city's history from new, imaginative perspectives, employing approaches and strategies such as parody, pastiche, genre mixture, metafiction, intertextuality and an incessant mixing of the factual with the fictitious. The aim of this article is to explore the various ways in which he toys with historical reality and blurs the borderline between fiction and biography in The Lambs of London (2004), offering thus an alternative rendering of two unrelated offences connected with late eighteenth and early nineteenth century London literary circles: Mary Lamb's matricide and William-Henry Ireland's forgeries of the Shakespeare Papers.

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

ISSN

0081-6272

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Volume of the periodical

47

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

177-195

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