| So Spirited a Town: Visions and Versions of Liverpool Contributor(s): Murray, Nicholas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1846311284 ISBN-13: 9781846311284 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $27.18 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Western Europe - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 942.753 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.36" W x 9.12" (0.84 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nicholas Murray blends literary descriptions of Liverpool across the centuries with his own memories of a 1960s Liverpool childhood to create an original and nuanced portrait of the character of a remarkable city. The result is a rich mosaic built up from a range of literary sources: quirky eighteenth- and nineteenth-century guide books, songs, poems, reminiscences, sermons, novels, letters, histories, travelogues, political tracts, autobiographies, essays, journalism, official reports, and jokes. This is a book about how Liverpool has been seen by others but it is also a personal and sometimes moving record of growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s and 1960s, exploring in an often light-hearted way what it means to be 'Scouse', never forgetting that De Quincey's many-languaged town is a cosmopolitan, multi-racial seaport with an often tough history of poverty, industrial strife, migration, but, above all, humour. |