Modernism at the Beach : : Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons / / Hannah Freed-Thall.
At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for twentieth-century literature and art. An unruly and elusiv...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Modernist Latitudes
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Beach Effect -- Chapter One: Proust’s Leap -- Chapter Two: Intertidal Woolf -- Chapter Three: Carson’s Quiet Bower -- Chapter Four: McKay’s Dream Port -- Chapter Five: Tidewrack, Beckett to Sunde -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index |
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Summary: | At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for twentieth-century literature and art. An unruly and elusive confluence of human and more-than-human forces, the seashore is also a space of performance—a stage for loosely scripted, improvisatory forms of embodiment and togetherness.The beach, Hannah Freed-Thall argues, was to the modernist imagination what mountains were to Romanticism: a space not merely of anthropogenic conquest but of vital elemental and creaturely connection. With an eye to the peripheries of capitalist leisure, Freed-Thall recasts familiar seaside practices—including tide-pooling, beachcombing, gambling, and sunbathing—as radical experiments in perception and sociability. Close readings of works by Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Claude McKay, Samuel Beckett, Rachel Carson, and Gordon Matta-Clark, among others, explore the modernist beach as a queer refuge, a precarious commons, a scene of collective exhaustion and endurance, and a visionary threshold at the end of the world.Interweaving environmental humanities, queer and feminist theory, and cultural history, Modernism at the Beach offers new ways of understanding twentieth-century literature and its relation to ecological thought. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780231551977 9783110749670 9783111319292 9783111318912 9783111319186 9783111318264 |
DOI: | 10.7312/free19708 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Hannah Freed-Thall. |