Screen LibraryCoastal cultures of the long nineteenth century /
The long nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic, varied flourishing in uses for and understandings of the coast, which could seem at once a space of clarity or of misty distance, a terminus or a place of embarkation? a place of solitude and exhilaration, of uselessness and instrumentality. 'Co...
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Edinburgh University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Edinburgh : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
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The long nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic, varied flourishing in uses for and understandings of the coast, which could seem at once a space of clarity or of misty distance, a terminus or a place of embarkation? a place of solitude and exhilaration, of uselessness and instrumentality. 'Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century' takes as its subject this diverse set of meanings, using them to interrogate questions of space, place and cultural production.0Outlining a broad range of coastal imaginings and engagements with the seaside, the book highlights the multivalent or even contradictory dimensions of these spaces. The collection offers essays from major figures in the cutting-edge field of maritime studies and includes interdisciplinary discussions of coastal spaces relevant to literary criticism, art history, museum studies, and cultural geography. |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 276 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781474435734 1474435734 |
| Index Number: | GB457 |
| CLC: | K956.14 |
| Call Number: | K956.14/C652 |
| Contents: |
`Unconscious of her own double appearance' : Fanny Burney's Brighton / A breath of fresh air : Constable and the coast / Henry Brougham and the invention of Cannes / The Battle of Torquay : the late Victorian resort as social experiment / Encounters with capitalism on R.L. Stevenson's early coasts / Seats and sites of authority : British colonial collecting on the East African coast / Tennyson's `Sea dreams' : coastal and fiscal boundaries / Saxon shore to Celtic coast : diasporic telegraphy in the Atlantic world / Marine bizarrerie : the imaginative biology of the underwater frontier / On the beach / Developing fluid : precision, vagueness and Gustave Le Gray's photographic beachscapes / Beyond the view : reframing the early commercial seaside photograph / Symons at the seaside / Unraveling / |