Oh! I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside!: Lancashire Seaside Publications
Beetham, Margaret
Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2009
Abstract
In the late nineteenth century, Manchester’s vigorous periodical press included publications which offered appropriate reading for the seaside holiday which was beginning to be a feature of Lancashire working-class life. Mixing dialect writing and Standard English, these annuals and reprints of stories from Ben Brierley’s Journal offered themselves both as representations of the time/space of seaside holiday and as part of its pleasures. Crucial to many of these stories were gender transgressions and sexual encounters. Drawing on the work of de Certeau, I argue that these seaside publications suggest some of the creative “tactics” developed by working-class communities.
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