Sandscapes : writing the British seaside / Jo Carruthers, Nour Dakkak, editors.
2020
PR149.L35 S26 2020
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Title
Sandscapes : writing the British seaside / Jo Carruthers, Nour Dakkak, editors.
ISBN
9783030447809 (electronic book)
3030447804 (electronic book)
3030447790
9783030447793
3030447804 (electronic book)
3030447790
9783030447793
Published
[Cham] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Copyright
©2020
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages)
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PR149.L35 S26 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.932146
Summary
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
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Carruthers, Jo, editor.
Dakkak, Nour, editor.
Dakkak, Nour, editor.
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