{"product_id":"sandscapes-writing-the-british-seaside-paperback","title":"Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJo Carruthers\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eNour Dakkak\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJo Carruthers\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK. Her books include: \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Purim: Law, Sovereignty and Hospitality in the Aesthetic Afterlives of \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eEsther\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) and a cultural history of simplicity in \u003ci\u003eEngland's Secular Scripture: Islamophobia and the Protestant Aesthetic\u003c\/i\u003e (2011).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNour Dakkak\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor at the Arab Open University, Kuwait, where she teaches humanities and literature. She is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eAnticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave 2020) with Jo Carruthers and Becky Spence and is working on a book of E. M. Forster's materialities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 227\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 03, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52696106303795,"sku":"9783030447793","price":28.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/cDN6UUpTM3ArQVBtaW5PYnA0cnNsQT09.webp?v=1763099937","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/sandscapes-writing-the-british-seaside-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}