Representation of the Nineteenth Century in England in the Novels "Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem" and "The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein" by Peter Ackroyd: Myths and Reality

English culture is oriented towards itself, hence it refers to the past in order to observe the current issues through the view of the previous ages. In postmodern era the dialogue between the past and the present, containing some real and mythological characteristics, is topical. Representation of the nineteenth century in the novels Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994) and The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (2008) by the eminent postmodern author Peter Ackroyd, as the part of this dialogue, in postmodern novel is an increasingly important area of interest. The current work is going to fill in the gap of the comparison between two eminent novels Dan Leno and Limehouse Golem and The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein in the oeuvre of Peter Ackroyd. This study uses the comparative analysis which is going to reveal the similarities of Ackroyd’s approach in the novels. Here Ackroyd basically considers and represents the reality of the nineteenth century. Overall, Ackroyd uses the key figures’ biographies, highlights the key concepts and stereotypes of the epoch and transforms them in order to achieve his purpose of writing. This study practically accomplishes its goals and might discover the problem which role the image of artificial human or Golem tends to have in the oeuvre of Peter Ackroyd and postmodern literature in general.