Modernism on Sea Art and Culture at the British Seaside

«This volume of intelligent and attractive essays is full of particular insights, and is to be applauded for its championing of the seaside as a site of cultural creativity (...).» (Peter Borsay, Times Higher Education)
«An immensely enjoyable feat of cultural beachcombing, fresh, diverse and enlightening.» (John Carey)
«From Virginia Woolf to Benjamin Britten to Sylvia Plath: a fascinating take on the wave of the avant-garde breaking on British shores.» (J.B. Bullen)
«Readers who love the British seaside (...) will find this volume as bracing as Skegness on a windy day.» (Brian Evans, Virginia Woolf Bulletin)
«Readable and thought-provoking (...) a stimulating and wide-ranging volume.» (Christiana Payne, Oxford Art Journal)

The Editors: Lara Feigel is a Lecturer in Modern Literary Studies at King’s College London. She is currently working on a monograph emerging from her doctoral thesis at the University of Sussex on the influence of cinema on politically committed British literature, 1930-45. She is a co-editor (with John Sutherland and Natasha Spender) of the journals of Stephen Spender (forthcoming) and the editor of A Nosegay: A Literary Journey from the Fragrant to the Fetid (2006).
Alexandra Harris is a Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. She studied history of art at the Courtauld Institute in London and holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford. Her recent book Romantic Moderns (2010) won the Guardian First Book Award.