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Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century
Contributor(s): Ingleby, Matthew (Editor), Kerr, Matthew P. M. (Editor)
ISBN: 1474435734     ISBN-13: 9781474435734
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
OUR PRICE:   $114.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century
- Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century
Dewey: 551.45
LCCN: 2018287847
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.72 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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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 studies
  • Offers interdisciplinary discussions of coastal spaces relevant to literary criticism, art history, museum studies and cultural geography
  • Questions traditional scholarly period boundaries by spanning the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries