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.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2020

ISBN

9783030447809

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Cover
Front Matter
1. Introduction: Sandscapes
2. Tide Wrack and Sand
3. An Eclectic A–Z of Sand: Removing, Treasuring, Recreating and Protecting
4. An Englishwoman’s Home Is Her Castle: Social Morphologies and Coastal Formations
5. Sands, Good Sands, Excellent Sands: Writing and Ranking the British Coastline in the Middle of the Twentieth Century
6. Queer Sands: Passion and Dynamic Sexualities in the Edwardian Sandscape
7. On the Sound-Sea: Fifteen Ways of Thinking About Sand and Sound
8. Rough and Smooth Sands: Social Thresholds and Seaside Style
9. A Morecambe Mystery
10. Map of the Quick
11. “Over Sands to the Lakes”: Journeys Over Morecambe Bay Before and After the Age of Steam
12. Sands Immense: A Fool’s Errand
13. Confounding Cartography: The Sandscape Diminution of Hayling Island
14. Drifting in a Cemetery of Sandscapes
Back Matter