{"product_id":"sandscapes-writing-the-british-seaside-9783030447793","title":"Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSandscapes: Writing the British Seaside \u003c\/i\u003ereflects 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction: Sandscapes, \u003ci\u003eJo Carruthers and Nour Dakkak.\u003c\/i\u003e- 2. Tide Wrack and Sand, \u003ci\u003eJenn Ashworth\u003c\/i\u003e.- 3. An Eclectic A-Z of Sand: Removing, Treasuring, Recreating and Protecting, \u003ci\u003ePeter Coates\u003c\/i\u003e.- 4. An Englishwoman’s Home is her Castle:\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eSocial Morphologies and Coastal Formations, \u003ci\u003eSefryn Penrose\u003c\/i\u003e.- 5. Sand, Good Sands, Excellent Sands: Writing and Ranking the British Coastline in the Middle of the Twentieth Century, \u003ci\u003eTim Cole\u003c\/i\u003e.- 6. Queer Sands: Passion and Dynamic Sexualities in the Edwardian Sandscape,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNour Dakkak\u003c\/i\u003e.- 7. On the Sound-Sea: Fifteen Ways of Thinking about Sand and Sound, \u003ci\u003eBrian Baker\u003c\/i\u003e.- 8. Rough and Smooth Sands: Social Thresholds and Seaside Style, \u003ci\u003eJo Carruthers.- \u003c\/i\u003e9. A Morecambe Mystery, \u003ci\u003eAngela Piccini\u003c\/i\u003e.- 10. Map of the Quick, \u003ci\u003eShona Legaspi\u003c\/i\u003e.- 11. “Over Sands to the Lakes”: Journeys over Morecambe Bay before and after the Age of Steam, \u003ci\u003eChristopher Donaldson\u003c\/i\u003e.- 12. \u003ci\u003eSand’s Immense\u003c\/i\u003e: A Fool’s Errand. \u003ci\u003eJean Sprackland\u003c\/i\u003e.- 13 Confounding Cartography: The Sandscape Diminution of Hayling Island, \u003ci\u003eDavid Cooper and Michelle Green\u003c\/i\u003e.- 14. Drifting in a Cemetery of Sandscapes, \u003ci\u003eJulian Brigstocke\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51021118603607,"sku":"9783030447793","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783030447793.jpg?v=1750785220","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sandscapes-writing-the-british-seaside-9783030447793","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}