Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book reveals the beach as a surprisingly generative setting for twentieth-century literature and art. Interweaving environmental humanities, queer and feminist theory, and cultural history, Hannah Freed-Thall offers new ways of understanding modernism.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Beach Effect
1. Proust's Leap
2. Intertidal Woolf
3. Carson's Quiet Bower
4. McKay's Dream Port
5. Tidewrack, Beckett to Sunde
Notes
Works Cited
Index