{"product_id":"9780231197083-modernism-at-the-beach","title":"Modernism at the Beach","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eQueer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons\u003cbr\u003eDeparting 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2024 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for twentieth-century literature and art. An unruly and elusive confluence of human and more-than-human forces, the seashore is also a space of performance—a stage for loosely scripted, improvisatory forms of embodiment and togetherness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe beach, Hannah Freed-Thall argues, was to the modernist imagination what mountains were to Romanticism: a space not merely of anthropogenic conquest but of vital elemental and creaturely connection. With an eye to the peripheries of capitalist leisure, Freed-Thall recasts familiar seaside practices—including tide-pooling, beachcombing, gambling, and sunbathing—as radical experiments in perception and sociability. Close readings of works by Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Claude McKay, Samuel Beckett, Rachel Carson, and Gordon Matta-Clark, among others, explore the modernist beach as a queer refuge, a precarious commons, a scene of collective exhaustion and endurance, and a visionary threshold at the end of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterweaving environmental humanities, queer and feminist theory, and cultural history, \u003ci\u003eModernism at the Beach\u003c\/i\u003e offers new ways of understanding twentieth-century literature and its relation to ecological thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40958355964001,"sku":"9780231197083","price":118.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_30514508.jpg?v=1730224766","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780231197083-modernism-at-the-beach","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}