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Examines the cultural importance of the coastline in the nineteenth-century British imagination
The 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 embarkation - a place of solitude and exhilaration, of uselessness and instrumentality. Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century takes as its subject this diverse set of meanings, using them to interrogate questions of space, place and cultural production.
Outlining a broad range of coastal imaginings and engagements with the seaside, the book highlights the multivalent or even contradictory dimensions of these spaces. The collection offers essays from major figures in the cutting-edge field of maritime studies and includes interdisciplinary discussions of coastal spaces relevant to literary criticism, art history, museum studies, and cultural geography.
Key Features
Presents new essays from major figures in the cutting-edge field of maritime studiesOffers interdisciplinary discussions of coastal spaces relevant to literary criticism, art history, museum studies and cultural geographyQuestions traditional scholarly period boundaries by spanning the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries
Contents
Acknowledgments v
List of Contributors vi
Introduction
Matthew Ingleby and Matthew P. M. Kerr 11
[A] Part I—In the Shadows of War
Chapter 1—'Unconscious of her own double appearance': Fanny Burney's Brighton
Leya Landau 35
Chapter 2—A Breath of Fresh Air: Constable and the Coast
Christiana Payne 59
Chapter 3—Henry Brougham and the Invention of Cannes
Rosemary Ashton 74
Chapter 4—The Battle of Torquay: The Late Victorian Resort as Social Experiment
James Kneale 85
Chapter 5—Encounters with Capitalism on R. L. Stevenson's Early Coasts
David Sergeant 104
Chapter 6—Seats and Sites of Authority: British Colonial Collecting on the East African Coast
Sarah Longair 125
Chapter 7—Tennyson's 'Sea Dreams': Coastal and Fiscal Boundaries
Roger Ebbatson 144
[A] Part II—Marginal Progress
Chapter 8—Saxon Shore to Celtic Coast: Diasporic Telegraphy in the Atlantic World
Brian H. Murray 158
Chapter 9—Marine Bizarrerie: The Imaginative Biology of the Underwater Frontier
Margaret Cohen 178
Chapter 10—On the Beach
Valentine Cunningham 195
Chapter 11—Developing Fluid: Precision, Vagueness, and Gustave Le Gray's Photographic Beachscapes
Matthew P. M. Kerr 212
Chapter 12—Beyond the View: Reframing the Early Commercial Seaside Photograph
Karen Shepherdson 234
Chapter 13—Symons at the Seaside
Nick Freeman 248
Epilogue—Unravelling
Philip Hoare 263
Notes 273
