"Oh! I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside!": Lancashire Seaside Publications

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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