Modernism on Sea Art and Culture at the British Seaside

Lara Feigel is Lecturer in Modern Literary Studies at King’s College London. She is the author of Literature, Cinema and Politics, 1930-1945: Reading Between the Frames (2010) and the editor of A Nosegay: A Literary Journey from the Fragrant to the Fetid (2006). She is currently co-editing of the journals of Stephen Spender, with John Sutherland and Natasha Spender.
Alexandra Harris is 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: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper (2010) won the Guardian First Book Award. In 2011 she was chosen as one of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers.