London Spirits - Burton, Rob
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Anyone who has walked the streets of London knows how profoundly history haunts the city. From its monuments and memorials to its blue-circled plaques, London wears the past with style, decorum, and a certain spirit. London Spirits pays homage to this spirit using narrators (some dead, some alive; some historical, some fictional) who have a particularly interesting story to tell about their life and times in this great metropolis. There's Philip Clark, plumber to Westminster Abbey, who recounts a "cock-eyed" version of William and Mary's Coronation in 1689. There's Virginia Woolf who takes one…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Anyone who has walked the streets of London knows how profoundly history haunts the city. From its monuments and memorials to its blue-circled plaques, London wears the past with style, decorum, and a certain spirit. London Spirits pays homage to this spirit using narrators (some dead, some alive; some historical, some fictional) who have a particularly interesting story to tell about their life and times in this great metropolis. There's Philip Clark, plumber to Westminster Abbey, who recounts a "cock-eyed" version of William and Mary's Coronation in 1689. There's Virginia Woolf who takes one last walk through Regent's Park in her waning days and revisits her past with powerful stream-of-consciousness memories. There's a contented suburban mother-of-two who is suddenly forced to confront her heady, "romantic" days as a London University student twenty years earlier. Other spirits include an Egyptian mummy in the British Museum; the Celtic warrior queen-Boadicea--at the millennium celebrations; a black British writer reflecting on his role as an artist in response to the racially-motivated murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993; and an eccentric stranger in a pub who shares similar traits as the painter, Joseph Turner.
Autorenporträt
Rob Burton was born and raised in England. He received his Bachelors of Arts from Kent University, Canterbury, and then won a scholarship to Indiana University in the United States where he earned a PhD in English and American Literature in 1984. He has been a Professor of English at California State University, Chico, for the past 28 years.