Introduction: Sounding Liverpool
Introduction: Sounding Liverpool
This introductory chapter first sets out the book's purpose, which is to address the question: what has Liverpool writing been? The discussions then turn to the factors that influenced writing from the city; the relationship between Liverpool and the United States; Liverpool's positioning as geographical and economic ‘other’; and Liverpudlian identity. It is argued that if writing from Liverpool is to continue to matter, it will need to re-invent itself in ways which at present appear as indistinct and fragile as the city's budding transformation from a place that is a shadow of its nineteenth-century self to a city which has ambitions to command the attention of Europe and the wider world.
Keywords: Liverpool writing, United States, Europe, Liverpudlian identity
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