The Lure of the Sea: The Discovery of the Seaside in the Western World, 1750-1840 by Alain Corbin

The Lure of the Sea: The Discovery of the Seaside in the Western World, 1750-1840

Alain Corbin with Jocelyn Phelps (Translator)

400 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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This wonderful book explores the dramatic change in Western attitude toward the sea and seaside pleasures that occurred between 1750 and 1840. Interest in travel; the arrival of landscape painting, geology, and natural theology; fashions in medici...

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