{"product_id":"modernism-at-the-beach-hannah-freed-thall-9780231197090","title":"Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons","description":"\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hannah Freed-Thall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231197098\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231197090\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Hannah Freed-Thall","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44078336475391,"sku":"9780231197090","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9d14da9d-14cc-4a47-9b81-4e517c43c077.jpg?v=1685474918","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/modernism-at-the-beach-hannah-freed-thall-9780231197090","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}