«'This study explores the intersection of seaside resorts and reading fiction in the Victorian age, offering a richly researched account of the origins of today's sun-lounger paperback. Through the way she expertly weaves together cultural geographical and bibliographical methodologies, Oulton allows us to read the settings "seaside novels" deploy in direct, intimate and at times surprising relation to the seaside locations in which these books were so often read. The book thus draws upon the long-standing historicist riches of nineteenth-century scholarship to make an important contribution to the cutting-edge interdisciplinary field of Coastal Studies.'
- Matthew Ingleby, Queen Mary University of London
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