Dr Matthew Ingleby is Lecturer in Victorian Studies in the Department of English, Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Production of Bloomsbury: Novel Grounds (Palgrave, forthcoming 2018) and Bloomsbury (British Library Publishing, 2017). Dr Matthew P. M. Kerr is Lecturer in British Literature, 1837 to 1939 at the University of Southampton. He is currently revising his first monograph, Boundless: The Language of the Sea and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (under consideration by Oxford University Press). His research appeared in several key journals in Victorian Studies.

From Martello towers and mermaids to telegraph cables, Swahili chairs and the "invention" of Cannes, these fine, thought-provoking essays demonstrate just how largely the coast loomed in British nineteenth-century culture.　　Artists, writers, scientists, religious thinkers, politicians and the public were all drawn by the sea, which in turn shaped Britain's relationship with the world. A very able crew of distinguished scholars and rising stars navigates the uncharted waters and major cultural currents of Victorian age.

• Acknowledgments vList of Contributors viIntroductionMatthew Ingleby and Matthew P. M. Kerr 11[A] Part I—In the Shadows of WarChapter 1—‘Unconscious of her own double appearance’: Fanny Burney’s BrightonLeya Landau 35Chapter 2—A Breath of Fresh Air: Constable and the CoastChristiana Payne 59Chapter 3—Henry Brougham and the Invention of CannesRosemary Ashton 74Chapter 4—The Battle of Torquay: The Late Victorian Resort as Social ExperimentJames Kneale 85Chapter 5—Encounters with Capitalism on R. L. Stevenson’s Early CoastsDavid Sergeant 104Chapter 6—Seats and Sites of Authority: British Colonial Collecting on the East African CoastSarah Longair 125Chapter 7—Tennyson’s ‘Sea Dreams’: Coastal and Fiscal BoundariesRoger Ebbatson 144[A] Part II—Marginal ProgressChapter 8—Saxon Shore to Celtic Coast: Diasporic Telegraphy in the Atlantic WorldBrian H. Murray 158Chapter 9—Marine Bizarrerie: The Imaginative Biology of the Underwater FrontierMargaret Cohen 178Chapter 10—On the BeachValentine Cunningham 195Chapter 11—Developing Fluid: Precision, Vagueness, and Gustave Le Gray’s Photographic BeachscapesMatthew P. M. Kerr 212Chapter 12—Beyond the View: Reframing the Early Commercial Seaside PhotographKaren Shepherdson 234Chapter 13—Symons at the SeasideNick Freeman 248Epilogue—UnravellingPhilip Hoare 263Notes 273

Dr Matthew Ingleby is Lecturer in Victorian Studies in the Department of English, Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Production of Bloomsbury: Novel Grounds (Palgrave, forthcoming 2018) and Bloomsbury (British Library Publishing, 2017). Dr Matthew P. M. Kerr is Lecturer in British Literature, 1837 to 1939 at the University of Southampton. He is currently revising his first monograph, Boundless: The Language of the Sea and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (under consideration by Oxford University Press). His research appeared in several key journals in Victorian Studies.

From Martello towers and mermaids to telegraph cables, Swahili chairs and the "invention" of Cannes, these fine, thought-provoking essays demonstrate just how largely the coast loomed in British nineteenth-century culture.　　Artists, writers, scientists, religious thinkers, politicians and the public were all drawn by the sea, which in turn shaped Britain's relationship with the world. A very able crew of distinguished scholars and rising stars navigates the uncharted waters and major cultural currents of Victorian age.

• Acknowledgments vList of Contributors viIntroductionMatthew Ingleby and Matthew P. M. Kerr 11[A] Part I—In the Shadows of WarChapter 1—‘Unconscious of her own double appearance’: Fanny Burney’s BrightonLeya Landau 35Chapter 2—A Breath of Fresh Air: Constable and the CoastChristiana Payne 59Chapter 3—Henry Brougham and the Invention of CannesRosemary Ashton 74Chapter 4—The Battle of Torquay: The Late Victorian Resort as Social ExperimentJames Kneale 85Chapter 5—Encounters with Capitalism on R. L. Stevenson’s Early CoastsDavid Sergeant 104Chapter 6—Seats and Sites of Authority: British Colonial Collecting on the East African CoastSarah Longair 125Chapter 7—Tennyson’s ‘Sea Dreams’: Coastal and Fiscal BoundariesRoger Ebbatson 144[A] Part II—Marginal ProgressChapter 8—Saxon Shore to Celtic Coast: Diasporic Telegraphy in the Atlantic WorldBrian H. Murray 158Chapter 9—Marine Bizarrerie: The Imaginative Biology of the Underwater FrontierMargaret Cohen 178Chapter 10—On the BeachValentine Cunningham 195Chapter 11—Developing Fluid: Precision, Vagueness, and Gustave Le Gray’s Photographic BeachscapesMatthew P. M. Kerr 212Chapter 12—Beyond the View: Reframing the Early Commercial Seaside PhotographKaren Shepherdson 234Chapter 13—Symons at the SeasideNick Freeman 248Epilogue—UnravellingPhilip Hoare 263Notes 273