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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Hannah Freed-ThallPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231197083ISBN 10: 023119708 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 07 March 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsField-changing books are ones that offer a new mode of thinking, way of seeing, or practice of reading-a clearly original or powerfully reimagined method. Modernism at the Beach does just that, shifting the ground of our critical assumptions and perspectives by encouraging us to encounter the modernist beach much like William Blake might: To see a world in a grain of sand. -- Diana Fuss, author of <i>Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy</i> Hannah Freed-Thall has written an exquisite book about the modernist beach, a liminal and littoral space where queer ecology guides literary history. An itinerary featuring Virginia Woolf, Rachel Carson, Claude McKay, and Samuel Beckett recreates on a structural level the offbeat intimacies and wayward encounters that each of Freed-Thall's close readings so vividly illuminates. You'll feel the ocean breeze, but you won't think of beach-reading the same way again. -- Aarthi Vadde, author of <i>Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2014</i> By spotlighting a common yet neglected setting of twentieth century literature, this revelatory book lights up modernism anew. The seashore, Freed-Thall shows us, is at once a cultural fantasy of commodified leisure, an emblem of ecological violence, and an experimental site of nonnormative modes of being. To the country and the city we must now add the beach -- Dora Zhang, author of <i>Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel</i> Field-changing books are ones that offer a new mode of thinking, way of seeing, or practice of reading-a clearly original or powerfully reimagined method. Modernism at the Beach does just that, shifting the ground of our critical assumptions and perspectives by encouraging us to encounter the modernist beach much like William Blake might: To see a world in a grain of sand. -- Diana Fuss, author of <i>Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy</i> Author InformationHannah Freed-Thall is an associate professor of French literature, thought, and culture at New York University. She is the author of Spoiled Distinctions: Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism (2015). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |