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Dockers and Detectives

Paperback • 2008 • English

Dockers and Detectives

By Ken Worpole

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A pioneering study of working-class reading and writing. Its first publication helped revive a number of literary reputations, such as those of Alexander Baron and James Hanley, as well as distinguishing distinct regional literary cultures and narrative styles still existing in Britain. Dockers and Detectives drew attention to a group of Liverpool writers who produced a series of expressionist novels about tenement life and the hardships of life at sea, while also containing an essay on the vibr...Show more

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9781905512379

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2008

Language

English

Original title

Dockers and Detectives

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Paperback

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