Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside

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Jo Carruthers, Nour Dakkak
Springer Nature, 3.11.2020 - 227 sivua

Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside reflects on the unique topography of sand, sandscapes, and the seaside in British culture and beyond. This book brings together creative and critical writings that explore the ways sand speaks to us of holidays and respite, but also of time and mortality, of plenitude and eternity. Drawing together writers from a range of backgrounds, the volume explores the environmental, social, personal, cultural, and political significance of sand and the seaside towns that have built up around it. The contributions take a variety of forms including fiction and nonfiction and cover topics ranging from sand dunes to sand mining, from seaside stories to shoreline architecture, from sand grains to global sand movements, from narratives of the setting up of bed and breakfasts to stories of seaside decline. Often a symbol of aridity, sand is revealed in this book to be an astonishingly fertile site for cultural meaning.

 

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Sandscapes
1
2 Tide Wrack and Sand
19
Removing Treasuring Recreating and Protecting
29
Social Morphologies and Coastal Formations
51
Writing and Ranking the British Coastline in the Middle of the Twentieth Century
77
Passion and Dynamic Sexualities in the Edwardian Sandscape
91
Fifteen Ways of Thinking About Sand and Sound
106
Social Thresholds and Seaside Style
125
9 A Morecambe Mystery
140
10 Map of the Quick
151
Journeys Over Morecambe Bay Before and After the Age of Steam
163
A Fools Errand
179
The Sandscape Diminution of Hayling Island
190
14 Drifting in a Cemetery of Sandscapes
209
Index
225
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Jo Carruthers,Nour Dakkak
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Jo Carruthers is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK. Her books include: The Politics of Purim: Law, Sovereignty and Hospitality in the Aesthetic Afterlives of Esther (2020) and a cultural history of simplicity in England's Secular Scripture: Islamophobia and the Protestant Aesthetic (2011).

Nour Dakkak is Assistant Professor at the Arab Open University, Kuwait, where she teaches humanities and literature. She is the co-editor of Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy (Palgrave 2020) with Jo Carruthers and Becky Spence and is working on a book of E. M. Forster’s materialities.

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OtsikkoSandscapes: Writing the British Seaside
ToimittajatJo Carruthers, Nour Dakkak
KustantajaSpringer Nature, 2020
ISBN3030447804, 9783030447809
Pituus227 sivua
  
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