Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction, Matthew Ingleby and Matthew P. M. Kerr; Part I: In the Shadows of War; 1. ‘Unconscious of her own double appearance’: Fanny Burney’s Brighton, Leya Landau; 2. A Breath of Fresh Air: Constable and the Coast, Christiana Payne; 3. Henry Brougham and the Invention of Cannes, Rosemary Ashton; 4. The Battle of Torquay: The Late Victorian Resort as Social Experiment, James Kneale; 5. Encounters with Capitalism on R. L. Stevenson’s Early Coasts, David Sergeant; 6. Seats and Sites of Authority: British Colonial Collecting on the East African Coast, Sarah Longair; 7. Tennyson’s ‘Sea Dreams’: Coastal and Fiscal Boundaries, Roger Ebbatson; Part II. Marginal Progress: 8. Saxon Shore to Celtic Coast: Diasporic Telegraphy in the Atlantic World, Brian H. Murray; 9. Marine Bizarrerie: The Imaginative Biology of the Underwater Frontier, Margaret Cohen; 10. On the Beach, Valentine Cunningham; 11. Developing Fluid: Precision, Vagueness, and Gustave Le Gray’s Photographic Beachscapes, Matthew P. M. Kerr; 12. Beyond the View: Reframing the Early Commercial Seaside Photograph, Karen Shepherdson; 13. Symons at the Seaside, Nick Freeman; Epilogue: Unravelling, Philip Hoare; Notes.