Coastal cultures of the long nineteenth century / edited by Matthew Ingleby and Matthew P.M. Kerr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

`Unconscious of her own double appearance' : Fanny Burney's Brighton / Leya Landau -- A breath of fresh air : Constable and the coast / Christiana Payne -- Henry Brougham and the invention of Cannes / Rosemary Ashton -- The Battle of Torquay : the late Victorian resort as social experiment / James Kneale -- Encounters with capitalism on R.L. Stevenson's early coasts / David Sergeant -- Seats and sites of authority : British colonial collecting on the East African coast / Sarah Longair -- Tennyson's `Sea dreams' : coastal and fiscal boundaries / Roger Ebbatson -- Saxon shore to Celtic coast : diasporic telegraphy in the Atlantic world / Brian H. Murray -- Marine bizarrerie : the imaginative biology of the underwater frontier / Margaret Cohen -- On the beach / Valentine Cunningham -- Developing fluid : precision, vagueness and Gustave Le Gray's photographic beachscapes / Matthew P.M. Kerr -- Beyond the view : reframing the early commercial seaside photograph / Karen Shepherdson -- Symons at the seaside / Nick Freeman -- Epilogue : Unraveling / Philip Hoare.

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This volume examines the cultural importance of the coastline in Britain during a time of vast change.

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