Coastal 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 :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2018].
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| Series: | Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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Table of Contents:
- `Unconscious of her own double appearance' : Fanny Burney's Brighton / Leya Landau
- A breath of fresh air : Constable and the coast / Christiana Payne
- Henry Brougham and the invention of Cannes / Rosemary Ashton
- The Battle of Torquay : the late Victorian resort as social experiment / James Kneale
- Encounters with capitalism on R.L. Stevenson's early coasts / David Sergeant
- Seats and sites of authority : British colonial collecting on the East African coast / Sarah Longair
- Tennyson's `Sea dreams' : coastal and fiscal boundaries / Roger Ebbatson
- Saxon shore to Celtic coast : diasporic telegraphy in the Atlantic world / Brian H. Murray
- Marine bizarrerie : the imaginative biology of the underwater frontier / Margaret Cohen
- On the beach / Valentine Cunningham
- Developing fluid : precision, vagueness and Gustave Le Gray's photographic beachscapes / Matthew P.M. Kerr
- Beyond the view : reframing the early commercial seaside photograph / Karen Shepherdson
- Symons at the seaside / Nick Freeman
- Epilogue : Unraveling / Philip Hoare.