Theatrical Role-Playing, Crime and Punishment in Peter Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and The Limehouse Golem (1994)
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Sidia Fiorato,
Sidia Fiorato is Researcher of English Literature at the Department of English Studies of the University of Verona. Her fields of research include the postmodern novel, detective fiction, law and literature, literature and dance. Among her publications, the monographs
Il gioco con l’ombra. Ambiguità e metanarrazioni nella narrativa di Peter Ackroyd (Verona: Edizioni Fiorini, 2003),The Relationship between Literature and Science in John Banville’s Scientific Tetralogy (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007), essays on Peter Ackroyd, P. D. James, Angela Carter, George Orwell, Alasdair Gray, dance and Shakespearean works.
Abstract
Peter Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994) highlights juridical issues such as the normative function of law and the punishment of crime, and intertwines them with the emergence of the unconscious of the law itself as well as of the individual. This aspect is analyzed in particular through the concept of the performance of individual identity (theatrical and social) in the context of late-nineteenth-century London music halls, and extends itself to include the awareness of man’s dual personality and the emergence of the double within the tenets of detective fiction.
About the author
Sidia Fiorato is Researcher of English Literature at the Department of English Studies of the University of Verona. Her fields of research include the postmodern novel, detective fiction, law and literature, literature and dance. Among her publications, the monographs Il gioco con l’ombra. Ambiguità e metanarrazioni nella narrativa di Peter Ackroyd (Verona: Edizioni Fiorini, 2003), The Relationship between Literature and Science in John Banville’s Scientific Tetralogy (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007), essays on Peter Ackroyd, P. D. James, Angela Carter, George Orwell, Alasdair Gray, dance and Shakespearean works.
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- Masthead
- Focus: Legal Metaphor
- Crossroads? Some Remarks on the Future of Law and Literature
- The Garden as the Law in the Renaissance: A nature metaphor in a legal setting
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