So Spirited a Town: Visions and Versions of Liverpool (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for So Spirited a Town A personal record of growing up in Liverpool in 1950s and 1960s, exploring what it means to be 'Scouse'. This book is about how Liverpool has been seen by others.
Full description- Publisher: Liverpool University Press
- Published: 01 July 2008
- Format: Paperback 256 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Local History
- ISBN 13: 9781846311284 ISBN 10: 1846311284
- Sales rank: 1,500,307
Full description for So Spirited a Town
In this highly personal encounter with his native city, 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.
