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So Spirited a Town
Nicholas Murray
其他書名
Visions and Versions of Liverpool
出版
Liverpool University Press
, 2007
主題
History / General
History / Europe / Western
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General
ISBN
1846311284
9781846311284
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fAxoAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
In this highly personal encounter with his native city, renowned biographer Nicholas Murray blends literary descriptions of Liverpool across the centuries with memories of his own 1960s Liverpool childhood in order to create an original and highly nuanced portrait of the character of this remarkable city. The result is a rich mosaic of description and experience built from a range of literary sources: Swift, Defoe, Melville, Hawthorne, Dickens, Woolf, and Orwell, as well as quirky eighteenth- and nineteenth-century guide books, songs, poems, reminiscences, sermons, novels, histories, travelogues, autobiographies, essays, official reports, journalism, and jokes.
So Spirited a Town
is a book about how Liverpool has been seen through the eyes of others, but at the same time it is also a personal and moving record of growing up Liverpudlian in the mid-twentieth century: exploring the light-hearted meaning of coming of age “Scouse” while never forgetting that De Quincey’s “many-languaged town” is a cosmopolitan, multiracial seaport with an often tough history of poverty, industrial strife, migration, and, above all, humor.