Contents

pp iii-iv

Acknowledgements

pp v-vi

Series Editor’s Preface

pp vii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-xii

Introduction

pp 1-26

Part I - In the Shadows of War

pp 27-28

1 - ‘Unconscious of her own double appearance’: Fanny Burney’s Brighton

pp 29-50

2 - A Breath of Fresh Air: Constable and the Coast

pp 51-68

3 - Henry Brougham and the Invention of Cannes

pp 69-78

4 - The Battle of Torquay: The Late Victorian Resort as Social Experiment

pp 79-97

5 - Encounters with Capitalism on R. L. Stevenson’s Early Coasts

pp 98-115

6 - Seats and Sites of Authority: British Colonial Collecting on the East African Coast

pp 116-134

7 - Tennyson’s ‘Sea Dreams’: Coastal and Fiscal Boundaries

pp 135-146

Part II - Marginal Progress

pp 147-148

8 - Saxon Shore to Celtic Coast: Diasporic Telegraphy in the Atlantic World

pp 149-168

9 - Marine Bizarrerie: The Imaginative Biology of the Underwater Frontier

pp 169-185

10 - On the Beach

pp 186-199

11 - Developing Fluid: Precision, Vagueness and Gustave Le Gray’s Photographic Beachscapes

pp 200-224

12 - Beyond the View: Reframing the Early Commercial Seaside Photograph

pp 225-241

13 - Symons at the Seaside

pp 242-255

Epilogue: Unravelling

pp 256-266

Index

pp 267-276