The beach in Anglophone literatures and cultures

"Conceptualising the beach as a creative trope and as a socio-cultural site, this collection examines its multiplicity of meanings and functions as a natural environment engendering both desire and fear in the human imagination from the Victorian period to the present. The contributors examine literature, film and art, as well moments of encounter and environmental crisis, highlighting the beach as a social space and vacationscape, as a geographical frontier between land and water, and as an historical site of contact and conflict" —

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 214 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked The beach in Anglophone literatures and cultures? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked The beach in Anglophone literatures and cultures. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Writing Displacement Shares British, welsh, scottish
  2. British Fiction and the Cold War Shares British, welsh, scottish
  3. The excursion Shares welsh, scottish, European
  4. Literary Darwinism Shares British, welsh, scottish

“If you want more of the same (literary criticism about environment), start with these.”

  1. A beginner's guide to critical reading
  2. Dracula
  3. The color purple
  4. How Texts Work

“If it was the welsh that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The vital art of D.H. Lawrence
  2. Literature in the Public Service
  3. Romanticism And The Rural Community
  4. Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Masculinity and Italian cinema
  2. Understanding the Bible
  3. Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
  4. Terror in Global Narrative