Sandscapes : writing the British seaside / Jo Carruthers, Nour Dakkak, editors.
"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...
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2020]
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2020 English/International |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : sandscapes / Jo Carruthers and Nour Dakkuk
- Tide wrack and sand / Jenn Ashworth
- An eclectic A-Z of sand : removing, treasuring, recreating and protecting / Peter Coates
- An Englishwoman's home is her castle : social morphologies and coastal formations / Sefryn Penrose
- Sands, good sands, excellent sands : writing and ranking the British coastline in the middle of the twentieth century / Tim Cole
- Queer sands : passion and dynamic sexualities in the Edwardian sandscape / Nour Dakkak
- On the sound-sea : fifteen ways of thinking about sand and sound / Brian Baker
- Rough and smooth sands : social thresholds and seaside style / Jo Carruthers
- A Morecambe mystery / Angela Piccini
- Map of the quick / Shona Legaspi
- "Over sands to the lakes" : journeys over Morecambe Bay before and after the age of steam / Christopher Donaldson
- Sands immense : a fool's errand / Jean Sprackland
- Confounding cartography : the sandscape diminution of Hayling Island / David Cooper and Michelle Green
- Drifting in a cemetary of sandscapes / Julian Brigstocke.