Modernism At the Beach - Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons

Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book reveals the beach as a surprisingly generative setting for twentieth-century literature and art. Interweaving environmental humanities, queer and feminist theory, and cultural history, Hannah Freed-Thall offers new ways of understanding modernism.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Beach Effect
1. Proust's Leap
2. Intertidal Woolf
3. Carson's Quiet Bower
4. McKay's Dream Port
5. Tidewrack, Beckett to Sunde
Notes
Works Cited
Index

About the author

Hannah Freed-Thall

Summary

Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book reveals the beach as a surprisingly generative setting for twentieth-century literature and art. Interweaving environmental humanities, queer and feminist theory, and cultural history, Hannah Freed-Thall offers new ways of understanding modernism.

Product details

• Authors: Hannah Freed-Thall, Freed-Thall Hannah
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.03.2023
• EAN: 9780231197090
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19709-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Modernist Latitudes
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Literary Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBTQ+