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Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century / Matthew Ingleby, Matthew P. M. Kerr.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVCPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 40 colour illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474435734
  • 9781474435758
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 551.45
LOC classification:
  • GB457.21 .C63 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor’s Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: In the Shadows of War -- 1. ‘Unconscious of her own double appearance’: Fanny Burney’s Brighton -- 2. A Breath of Fresh Air: Constable and the Coast -- 3. Henry Brougham and the Invention of Cannes -- 4. The Battle of Torquay: The Late Victorian Resort as Social Experiment -- 5. Encounters with Capitalism on R. L. Stevenson’s Early Coasts -- 6. Seats and Sites of Authority: British Colonial Collecting on the East African Coast -- 7. Tennyson’s ‘Sea Dreams’: Coastal and Fiscal Boundaries -- Part II: Marginal Progress -- 8. Saxon Shore to Celtic Coast: Diasporic Telegraphy in the Atlantic World -- 9. Marine Bizarrerie: The Imaginative Biology of the Underwater Frontier -- 10. On the Beach -- 11. Developing Fluid: Precision, Vagueness and Gustave Le Gray’s Photographic Beachscapes -- 12. Beyond the View: Reframing the Early Commercial Seaside Photograph -- 13. Symons at the Seaside -- Epilogue: Unravelling -- Index
Summary: Examines the cultural importance of the coastline in the nineteenth-century British imaginationThe 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.Outlining 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.Key FeaturesPresents new essays from major figures in the cutting-edge field of maritime studiesOffers interdisciplinary discussions of coastal spaces relevant to literary criticism, art history, museum studies and cultural geographyQuestions traditional scholarly period boundaries by spanning the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor’s Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: In the Shadows of War -- 1. ‘Unconscious of her own double appearance’: Fanny Burney’s Brighton -- 2. A Breath of Fresh Air: Constable and the Coast -- 3. Henry Brougham and the Invention of Cannes -- 4. The Battle of Torquay: The Late Victorian Resort as Social Experiment -- 5. Encounters with Capitalism on R. L. Stevenson’s Early Coasts -- 6. Seats and Sites of Authority: British Colonial Collecting on the East African Coast -- 7. Tennyson’s ‘Sea Dreams’: Coastal and Fiscal Boundaries -- Part II: Marginal Progress -- 8. Saxon Shore to Celtic Coast: Diasporic Telegraphy in the Atlantic World -- 9. Marine Bizarrerie: The Imaginative Biology of the Underwater Frontier -- 10. On the Beach -- 11. Developing Fluid: Precision, Vagueness and Gustave Le Gray’s Photographic Beachscapes -- 12. Beyond the View: Reframing the Early Commercial Seaside Photograph -- 13. Symons at the Seaside -- Epilogue: Unravelling -- Index

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Examines the cultural importance of the coastline in the nineteenth-century British imaginationThe 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.Outlining 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.Key FeaturesPresents new essays from major figures in the cutting-edge field of maritime studiesOffers interdisciplinary discussions of coastal spaces relevant to literary criticism, art history, museum studies and cultural geographyQuestions traditional scholarly period boundaries by spanning the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries

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In English.

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