Cheapness, Predictability, and Cliché: Beaches in Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals
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Cheapness, Predictability, and Cliché: Beaches in Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals. / Damkjær, Maria.
The Literary Beach: History and Aesthetics of a modern Topos. red. / Carsten Meiner; Katrine Helene Andersen. Routledge, 2024.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Cheapness, Predictability, and Cliché: Beaches in Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals
AU - Damkjær, Maria
PY - 2024/5/8
Y1 - 2024/5/8
N2 - How does the beach topos act in the popular periodical; what happens when a topos becomes used, over-used, and cheapened? This chapter looks at a number of nineteenth-century British mass-market periodicals, including the London Reader and Bow Bells, and argues that the beach worked as a convenient generator for plot. In the liminal space of the beach, possible drama can sprout in the meeting between different classes, and in the interplay between romance and death. The chapter also reflects on the digital archive and the methodology of selection: how do we choose the texts we study, and how might we imagine the links between them?
AB - How does the beach topos act in the popular periodical; what happens when a topos becomes used, over-used, and cheapened? This chapter looks at a number of nineteenth-century British mass-market periodicals, including the London Reader and Bow Bells, and argues that the beach worked as a convenient generator for plot. In the liminal space of the beach, possible drama can sprout in the meeting between different classes, and in the interplay between romance and death. The chapter also reflects on the digital archive and the methodology of selection: how do we choose the texts we study, and how might we imagine the links between them?
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Topos
KW - periodicals
KW - nineteenth century
KW - Britain 19th century
KW - Place
KW - Beach
KW - romance
KW - adventure
KW - popular literature
M3 - Book chapter
BT - The Literary Beach: History and Aesthetics of a modern Topos
A2 - Meiner, Carsten
A2 - Andersen, Katrine Helene
PB - Routledge
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