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From early colonial encounters to the ecological disasters of the twenty-first century, the performativity of contact has been a crucial element in the political significance of the beach. Conceptualising the beach as a creative trope and as a socio-cultural site, as well as an aesthetically productive topography, this collection examines its multiplicity of meanings and functions as a natural environment engendering both desire and fear in the human imagination from the Victorian period to the present. The contributors examine literature, film, and art, in addition to moments of encounter and environmental crisis, to highlight the beach as a social space inspiring particular codes of behaviour and specific discourses, as a geographical frontier between land and water, as an historical site of contact and conflict, and as a vacationscape promising regeneration and withdrawal from everyday life. The diversity of the beach is reflected in the geographical range, with essays on locales and texts from Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, South Africa, the United States, Polynesia, and New Zealand. Focusing on the changed function of the beach as a result of processes of industrialisation and the rise of a modern leisure and health culture, this interdisciplinary volume theorises the beach as a demarcater of the precarious boundary between land and the sea, as well as between nature and culture.

From early colonial encounters to the ecological disasters of the twenty-first century, the performativity of contact has been a crucial element in the political significance of the beach. Conceptualising the beach as a creative trope and as a socio-cultural site, as well as an aesthetically productive topography, this collection examines its multiplicity of meanings and functions as a natural environment engendering both desire and fear in the human imagination from the Victorian period to the present. The contributors examine literature, film, and art, in addition to moments of encounter and environmental crisis, to highlight the beach as a social space inspiring particular codes of behaviour and specific discourses, as a geographical frontier between land and water, as an historical site of contact and conflict, and as a vacationscape promising regeneration and withdrawal from everyday life. The diversity of the beach is reflected in the geographical range, with essays on locales and texts from Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, South Africa, the United States, Polynesia, and New Zealand. Focusing on the changed function of the beach as a result of processes of industrialisation and the rise of a modern leisure and health culture, this interdisciplinary volume theorises the beach as a demarcater of the precarious boundary between land and the sea, as well as between nature and culture.

From early colonial encounters to the ecological disasters of the twenty-first century, the performativity of contact has been a crucial element in the political significance of the beach. Conceptualising the beach as a creative trope and as a socio-cultural site, as well as an aesthetically productive topography, this collection examines its multiplicity of meanings and functions as a natural environment engendering both desire and fear in the human imagination from the Victorian period to the present. The contributors examine literature, film, and art, in addition to moments of encounter and environmental crisis, to highlight the beach as a social space inspiring particular codes of behaviour and specific discourses, as a geographical frontier between land and water, as an historical site of contact and conflict, and as a vacationscape promising regeneration and withdrawal from everyday life. The diversity of the beach is reflected in the geographical range, with essays on locales and texts from Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, South Africa, the United States, Polynesia, and New Zealand. Focusing on the changed function of the beach as a result of processes of industrialisation and the rise of a modern leisure and health culture, this interdisciplinary volume theorises the beach as a demarcater of the precarious boundary between land and the sea, as well as between nature and culture.

From early colonial encounters to the ecological disasters of the twenty-first century, the performativity of contact has been a crucial element in the political significance of the beach. Conceptualising the beach as a creative trope and as a socio-cultural site, as well as an aesthetically productive topography, this collection examines its multiplicity of meanings and functions as a natural environment engendering both desire and fear in the human imagination from the Victorian period to the present. The contributors examine literature, film, and art, in addition to moments of encounter and environmental crisis, to highlight the beach as a social space inspiring particular codes of behaviour and specific discourses, as a geographical frontier between land and water, as an historical site of contact and conflict, and as a vacationscape promising regeneration and withdrawal from everyday life. The diversity of the beach is reflected in the geographical range, with essays on locales and texts from Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, South Africa, the United States, Polynesia, and New Zealand. Focusing on the changed function of the beach as a result of processes of industrialisation and the rise of a modern leisure and health culture, this interdisciplinary volume theorises the beach as a demarcater of the precarious boundary between land and the sea, as well as between nature and culture.

Time is running out...When thirteen year old Jessie Hanson witnesses a kidnapping in broad daylight, she and her friends, Tina Adams and Bryce Peterson, use their combined deductive reasoning to help authorities find the culprit before the young victim is whisked out of Fairfield to be lost forever. “TAKEN: A Willow Lane Mystery” is the fourth book in ‘The Willow Lane Mysteries’ series set in rural small town Nebraska.

Die Zeit um 1800 schien den europäischen Frauen größere Handlungsmöglichkeiten im öffentlichen Raum zu erschließen. Über die sozialen Aufgaben und die natürliche Veranlagung der Frau - Mutter und/oder Bürgerin, eigenständige Person und/oder Ergänzung des Mannes, rationales Wesen und/oder Geschlechtswesen - wurden nach dem Politisierungsschub durch die Französische Revolution Debatten auf verschiedensten Gebieten geführt, etwa in der politischen Philosophie, in der Bildung und in der Literatur. In allen Ländern Europas fanden sie ihren Widerhall. Ausgewiesene Autorinnen und Autoren aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen wie Philosophie, Kulturwissenschaft, Kunstgeschichte, Germanistik und Anglistik setzen sich in diesem Band mit den verschiedenen Facetten des Verhältnisses von Geschlecht und Politik auseinander. Das Buch leistet damit einen innovativen Beitrag zur Erforschung der Geschlechterverhältnisse um 1800.

In der Schwellenepoche der frühen Neuzeit bildet das Drama die dominante Gattung. Aufgrund seiner schnellen Produktionsweise und seiner Stellung zwischen Schriftlichkeit und Mündlichkeit, zwischen städtischer ‘Unterhaltungsindustrie’ und höfischer Repräsentation, ist das Drama von allen Textsorten am ehesten in der Lage, die sozialen, religiösen und politischen Spannungen des Zeitalters zu verhandeln. Dieser Sammelband bietet einen Überblick über Spielarten des englischen, französischen, spanischen und deutschen Dramas in der Frühen Neuzeit, vom geistlichen Spiel des Mittelalters bis zur Auseinandersetzung mit den Klassikern der europäischen Renaissance in der Romantik.