Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside reflects 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.
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