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Title Coastal cultures of the long nineteenth century / edited by Matthew Ingleby and Matthew P.M. Kerr.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents `Unconscious of her own double appearance' : Fanny Burney's Brighton / Leya Landau -- A breath of fresh air : Constable and the coast / Christiana Payne -- Henry Brougham and the invention of Cannes / Rosemary Ashton -- Battle of Torquay : the late Victorian resort as social experiment / James Kneale -- Encounters with capitalism on R.L. Stevenson's early coasts / David Sergeant -- Seats and sites of authority : British colonial collecting on the East African coast / Sarah Longair -- Tennyson's `Sea dreams' : coastal and fiscal boundaries / Roger Ebbatson -- Saxon shore to Celtic coast : diasporic telegraphy in the Atlantic world / Brian H. Murray -- Marine bizarrerie : the imaginative biology of the underwater frontier / Margaret Cohen -- On the beach / Valentine Cunningham -- Developing fluid : precision, vagueness and Gustave Le Gray's photographic beachscapes / Matthew P.M. Kerr -- Beyond the view : reframing the early commercial seaside photograph / Karen Shepherdson -- Symons at the seaside / Nick Freeman -- Epilogue : Unraveling / Philip Hoare.
Summary This volume examines the cultural importance of the coastline in Britain during a time of vast change.
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Subject Coasts -- Great Britain.
Coasts.
Great Britain.
Tourism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Tourism.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Seashore -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
Seashore.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology.
Manners and customs.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Ingleby, Matthew, editor.
Kerr, Matthew P. M. (Matthew Peter Milton), 1982- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Coastal cultures of the long nineteenth century. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018] 1474435734 (OCoLC)1030591598
ISBN 9781474435758 (electronic book)
1474435750 (electronic book)
9781474435765 (electronic book)
1474435769 (electronic book)
9781474435734 (hardback)
1474435734 (hardback)
1474435734
9781474435734
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