Coastal Gothic, 1719-2020 Packham, Jimmy creator author. text xx Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2025 monographic eng print 1 volume. "Littoral zones such as haunted shorelines, oppressively expansive beaches, and the crumbling edgelands around coastal cliffs have been an indelible feature of the Gothic literary tradition since the eighteenth century. They are frequently portrayed as strange, interstitial realms, sites of epistemic and existential precarity, of wreckage and uncanny returns, poised between the homely and unhomely, whose intense openness to the world(s) beyond contend uneasily (yet valuably) with the imagined integrity of selves and nations: it is a region, above all, of unsettlement. Coastal Gothic, 1719-2020 offers the first long-form examination of the coastal Gothic. Focusing on British and Irish Gothic authors and on the fraught political and human histories of the coastline, this Element examines the function of littoral terror, hauntings, and uncanny encounters as a means of unsettling pervasive conceptions of identity at national, regional, and individual levels"-- Introduction : Haunted shores -- Archipelagic gothic and the seaside -- War and the coastal gothic -- Migration and the coastal uncanny -- Conclusion : Lighthouses, wreckage, and the gothic. Jimmy Packham. Includes bibliographical references. Coasts in literature English literature Irish authors History and criticism English literature History and criticism Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English History and criticism Haunted places in literature Littoral dans la littérature Littérature anglaise Histoire et critique Coasts in literature English literature Irish authors History and criticism English literature History and criticism Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English 1719-2020 fast 823.08729 Cambridge elements Elements in the Gothic 9781009548205 100943375X 9781009433754 1009548204 9781009433730 POD YDX 251011 20260511162923.2 in00005781312 eng