Victorian Literature, Queer Longing and the Shore, 1840–1920
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blue humanities
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coastal studies
early twentieth-century literature
ecocriticism
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feminism
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nineteenth-century literature
queer ecology
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the shore
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- ISBN 9781399552165
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book studies how writers, artists and scientists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries thought about queerness through encounters at the water’s edge. Authors in this period witnessed dramatic and destructive changes to shorelines, including those caused by industrial pollution, the commercialisation of waterways and the rise of seaside tourism. Through an analysis of literary, cultural and visual texts, the book unearths a strand of ecological desire that merges better stewardship of the waters with an affirmation of sexual and gender diversity. It puts queer and feminist approaches in conversation with coastal studies and the blue humanities, and centres moments of multispecies joy.
Barbara Barrow is Associate Professor of English at Lund University in Sweden, where she is also a member of the Lund Environmental Humanities Hub. Her research interests include nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian literature, women, gender, and sexuality, and the environmental humanities. She is the author of Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry: Political Dialects (2019), and of articles on queer marine collecting, queer botany, feminized environmental disaster, and deep time that have appeared in CUSP, Victorian Poetry, Ecocene, Victoriographies, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and elsewhere.
