Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century /

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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Ingleby, Matthew,
Kerr, Matthew P. M. ,
MitwirkendeR:
Ashton, Rosemary,
Cohen, Margaret,
Cunningham, Valentine,
Ebbatson, Roger,
Freeman, Nick,
Hoare, Philip,
Ingleby, Matthew,
Kerr, Matthew P. M.,
Kneale, James,
Landau, Leya,
Longair, Sarah,
Murray, Brian H.,
Payne, Christiana,
Sergeant, David,
Shepherdson, Karen,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2018
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 40 colour illustrations
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Table of 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

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