The beach in Anglophone literatures and cultures : reading littoral space / edited by Ursula Kluwick and Virginia Richter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kluwick, Ursula, 1977- editor, author.

Richter, Virginia, editor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--English-speaking countries--History and criticism.

English literature.

Beaches in literature.

Beaches in art.

Beaches in motion pictures.

Beaches--Psychological aspects.

Beaches.

Beaches--Social aspects.

Beaches--Environmental aspects.

Psychological aspects.

English-speaking countries.

Physical Description:

xi, 199 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2015]

Summary:

"Conceptualising the beach as a creative trope and as a socio-cultural site, this collection examines its multiplicity of meanings and functions as a natural environment engendering both desire and fear in the human imagination from the Victorian period to the present. The contributors examine literature, film and art, as well moments of encounter and environmental crisis, highlighting the beach as a social space and vacationscape, as a geographical frontier between land and water, and as an historical site of contact and conflict" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : 'Twixt land and sea: approaches to littoral studies / Virginia Richter and Ursula Kluwick

Visions of the beach in Victorian Britain / Christiana Payne

Dover Beach and the politics and poetics of perspective / Katharina Rennhak

"Gripping to a wet rock": coastal erosion and the land-sea divide as existentialist/ecocritical tropes in contemporary British and Irish fiction / Anne-Julia Zwierlein

Shorelines: littoral landscapes in the poetry of Michael Longley and Robert Minhinnick / Neal Alexander

John Burnside's seascapes / Julika Griem

Caribbean beachcombers / Tobias Döring

Literary inscriptions on the South African beach: ambiguous settings, ambivalent textualities / Meg Samuelson

Food for sharks: abjection on the beach / Ursula Kluwick

"Where things meet in the world between sea and land": human-whale encounters in littoral space / Virginia Richter

Slow violence on the beach: documenting disappearance in there once was an island /Alexa Weik von Mossner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472457530

1472457536

OCLC:

899137885