Ursula Kluwick is Lecturer in English Literature and Virginia Richter is Professor of English Literature at the University of Berne, Switzerland.

• 'Twixt land and sea: approaches to littoral studies'. Visions of the beach in Victorian Britain. Dover beach and the politics and poetics of perspective. 'Gripping to a wet rock': coastal erosion and the land-sea divide as existentialist/ecocritical tropes in contemporary British and Irish fiction. Shorelines: littoral landscapes in the poetry of Michael Longley and Robert Minhinnick. John Burnside's seascapes. Caribbean beachcombers. Literary inscriptions on the South African beach: ambiguous settings, ambivalent textualities. Food for sharks: abjection on the beach. 'Where things meet in the world between sea and land': human-whale encounters in littoral space. Slow violence on the beach: documenting disappearance in There Once Was an Island.

Ursula Kluwick is Lecturer in English Literature and Virginia Richter is Professor of English Literature at the University of Berne, Switzerland.

• 'Twixt land and sea: approaches to littoral studies'. Visions of the beach in Victorian Britain. Dover beach and the politics and poetics of perspective. 'Gripping to a wet rock': coastal erosion and the land-sea divide as existentialist/ecocritical tropes in contemporary British and Irish fiction. Shorelines: littoral landscapes in the poetry of Michael Longley and Robert Minhinnick. John Burnside's seascapes. Caribbean beachcombers. Literary inscriptions on the South African beach: ambiguous settings, ambivalent textualities. Food for sharks: abjection on the beach. 'Where things meet in the world between sea and land': human-whale encounters in littoral space. Slow violence on the beach: documenting disappearance in There Once Was an Island.

Ursula Kluwick is Lecturer in English Literature and Virginia Richter is Professor of English Literature at the University of Berne, Switzerland.

• 'Twixt land and sea: approaches to littoral studies'. Visions of the beach in Victorian Britain. Dover beach and the politics and poetics of perspective. 'Gripping to a wet rock': coastal erosion and the land-sea divide as existentialist/ecocritical tropes in contemporary British and Irish fiction. Shorelines: littoral landscapes in the poetry of Michael Longley and Robert Minhinnick. John Burnside's seascapes. Caribbean beachcombers. Literary inscriptions on the South African beach: ambiguous settings, ambivalent textualities. Food for sharks: abjection on the beach. 'Where things meet in the world between sea and land': human-whale encounters in littoral space. Slow violence on the beach: documenting disappearance in There Once Was an Island.