update regional and theme info

Author: flicksolutions

src/routes/+page.svelte

@@ -42,9 +42,16 @@
 				{
 					name: 'about',
 					label: 'About',
-					content: `<p>This is the Black Atlantic region. It encompasses a zone between Europe, Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean. Here represented as a geographical region,
-						the Black Atlantic refers to a term coined by Paul Gilroy which emphasises the necessity of a transnational and intercultural perspective that takes the colonial legacy
-						into account. Given its history, it was surprising to find the expected themes of migration and death appear rarely in our selection of texts.</p>`
+					content: `<p>This is the Black Atlantic region. It encompasses a zone between Europe, Africa, the Americas,
+		and the Caribbean. Here imagined as a geographical region, the Black Atlantic refers to a
+		concept coined by Paul Gilroy. Following Gilroy, the Black Atlantic has to be thought from a
+		transnational and intercultural perspective due to its colonial legacy and the transatlantic
+		slave trade. While this history is omnipresent in our chosen texts, it was surprising to find
+		that the expected themes of migration and death feature only rarely. Instead, we find a
+		continuity of leisure as the main theme, with swimming as the most prominent activity. In line
+		with the other regions, contemplativeness is a prevalent mood on the literary beaches of the
+		Black Atlantic, but it is the juxtaposition of melancholy and playfulness as well as happiness
+		which stands out most.</p>`
 				},
 				{
 					name: 'event',
@@ -81,14 +88,7 @@
 				{
 					name: 'about',
 					label: 'About',
-					content: `<p>This is the Northern Seas region. This region encompasses texts that are set in countries
-						bordering the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, parts of the North Atlantic Ocean and the
-						Norwegian Sea. For this region, some clear results have been identified. The materiality
-						of the beaches in these texts are often rocky, shingles, fossils, driftwood
-						and plastic.
-						The mood is also characterised
-						by being contemplative, curious,
-						and morbid.</p>`
+					content: `<p>This is the Northern Seas region, encompassing texts set in countries bordering the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, parts of the North Atlantic Ocean, and the Norwegian Sea. Literary scenes here often evoke moods of curiosity, and contemplation, in suspense between happy and melancholic, with prominent events including introspection and encounters . Unlike the exuberant vacationscape of the Mediterranean, leisure in the Northern Seas often involves subtler, more introverted activities. This region also features the most pollution-themed texts, where leisure and pollution frequently appear together. This juxtaposition suggests the enduring idea of the beach as a place of leisure despite the growing visibility of anthropogenic pollution.</p>`
 				}
 			]
 		}
@@ -107,12 +107,7 @@
 				{
 					name: 'about',
 					label: 'About',
-					content: `<p>This is the Mediterranean region. It includes texts set in southern Europe, Asia Minor, and Northern Africa.
-						The Mediterranean is its function as a holiday destination, but also as a link between north and south, east and west.
-						This is reflected in the events mainly associated with Mediterranean beaches: leisure activities, such as bathing and swimming, but also encounters,
-						arrivals, and departures. Despite the prominence of vacationscape, literary scenes set on Mediterranean beaches are shaped by contemplative and foreboding
-						moods. This suggests that the Mediterranean is an ambivalent space, a site of tension in which different interests grapple with each other and in which
-						carefree holiday atmospheres can quickly tip into something more sinister.</p>`
+					content: `<p>This is the Mediterranean region. It includes texts set in southern Europe, Asia Minor, and Northern Africa. In these texts, the Mediterranean functions as a holiday destination, but also as a link between north and south, east and west. This is reflected in the main events associated with Mediterranean beaches: leisure activities, such as sunbathing and swimming, but also encounters, arrivals, departures, and murder. Despite the fact that vacationscape is a prominent frame for literary scenes set on Mediterranean beaches, the mood is often contemplative or foreboding. This suggests that the Mediterranean is an ambivalent space, a site of tension in which different interests grapple with each other and in which carefree holiday atmospheres can quickly tip into something more sinister.</p>`
 				}
 			]
 		}

src/routes/region/black-atlantic/+page.svelte

@@ -4,19 +4,23 @@
 	import { Accordion, AccordionItem } from '@skeletonlabs/skeleton';
 </script>
 
+{#snippet content()}
+	<p>
+		This is the Black Atlantic region. It encompasses a zone between Europe, Africa, the Americas,
+		and the Caribbean. Here imagined as a geographical region, the Black Atlantic refers to a
+		concept coined by Paul Gilroy. Following Gilroy, the Black Atlantic has to be thought from a
+		transnational and intercultural perspective due to its colonial legacy and the transatlantic
+		slave trade. While this history is omnipresent in our chosen texts, it was surprising to find
+		that the expected themes of migration and death feature only rarely. Instead, we find a
+		continuity of leisure as the main theme, with swimming as the most prominent activity. In line
+		with the other regions, contemplativeness is a prevalent mood on the literary beaches of the
+		Black Atlantic, but it is the juxtaposition of melancholy and playfulness as well as happiness
+		which stands out most.
+	</p>
+{/snippet}
 <!-- svelte-ignore element_invalid_self_closing_tag -->
 <SidebarLayout>
 	<svelte:fragment slot="sidebar">
-		{#snippet content()}
-			<p>
-				This is the Black Atlantic region. It encompasses a zone between Europe, Africa, the
-				Americas, and the Caribbean. Here represented as a geographical region, the Black Atlantic
-				refers to a term coined by Paul Gilroy which emphasises the necessity of a transnational and
-				intercultural perspective that takes the colonial legacy into account. Given its history, it
-				was surprising to find the expected themes of migration and death appear rarely in our
-				selection of texts.
-			</p>
-		{/snippet}
 		{#snippet buttons()}
 			<ul>
 				<li class="mt-2">

src/routes/region/mediterranean/+page.svelte

@@ -4,22 +4,22 @@
 	import { Accordion, AccordionItem } from '@skeletonlabs/skeleton';
 </script>
 
+{#snippet content()}
+	<p>
+		This is the Mediterranean region. It includes texts set in southern Europe, Asia Minor, and
+		Northern Africa. In these texts, the Mediterranean functions as a holiday destination, but also
+		as a link between north and south, east and west. This is reflected in the main events
+		associated with Mediterranean beaches: leisure activities, such as sunbathing and swimming, but
+		also encounters, arrivals, departures, and murder. Despite the fact that vacationscape is a
+		prominent frame for literary scenes set on Mediterranean beaches, the mood is often
+		contemplative or foreboding. This suggests that the Mediterranean is an ambivalent space, a site
+		of tension in which different interests grapple with each other and in which carefree holiday
+		atmospheres can quickly tip into something more sinister.
+	</p>
+{/snippet}
 <!-- svelte-ignore element_invalid_self_closing_tag -->
 <SidebarLayout>
 	<svelte:fragment slot="sidebar">
-		{#snippet content()}
-			<p>
-				This is the Mediterranean region. It includes texts set in southern Europe, Asia Minor, and
-				Northern Africa. The Mediterranean is its function as a holiday destination, but also as a
-				link between north and south, east and west. This is reflected in the events mainly
-				associated with Mediterranean beaches: leisure activities, such as bathing and swimming, but
-				also encounters, arrivals, and departures. Despite the prominence of vacationscape, literary
-				scenes set on Mediterranean beaches are shaped by contemplative and foreboding moods. This
-				suggests that the Mediterranean is an ambivalent space, a site of tension in which different
-				interests grapple with each other and in which carefree holiday atmospheres can quickly tip
-				into something more sinister.
-			</p>
-		{/snippet}
 		{#snippet buttons()}
 			<ul>
 				<li class="mt-2">

src/routes/region/northern-sea/+page.svelte

@@ -4,22 +4,21 @@
 	import { Accordion, AccordionItem } from '@skeletonlabs/skeleton';
 </script>
 
+{#snippet content()}
+	<p>
+		This is the Northern Seas region, encompassing texts set in countries bordering the North Sea,
+		the Baltic Sea, parts of the North Atlantic Ocean, and the Norwegian Sea. Literary scenes here
+		often evoke moods of curiosity, and contemplation, in suspense between happy and melancholic,
+		with prominent events including introspection and encounters . Unlike the exuberant
+		vacationscape of the Mediterranean, leisure in the Northern Seas often involves subtler, more
+		introverted activities. This region also features the most pollution-themed texts, where leisure
+		and pollution frequently appear together. This juxtaposition suggests the enduring idea of the
+		beach as a place of leisure despite the growing visibility of anthropogenic pollution.
+	</p>
+{/snippet}
 <!-- svelte-ignore element_invalid_self_closing_tag -->
 <SidebarLayout>
 	<svelte:fragment slot="sidebar">
-		{#snippet content()}
-			<p>
-				This is the Mediterranean region. It includes texts set in southern Europe, Asia Minor, and
-				Northern Africa. The Mediterranean is its function as a holiday destination, but also as a
-				link between north and south, east and west. This is reflected in the events mainly
-				associated with Mediterranean beaches: leisure activities, such as bathing and swimming, but
-				also encounters, arrivals, and departures. Despite the prominence of vacationscape, literary
-				scenes set on Mediterranean beaches are shaped by contemplative and foreboding moods. This
-				suggests that the Mediterranean is an ambivalent space, a site of tension in which different
-				interests grapple with each other and in which carefree holiday atmospheres can quickly tip
-				into something more sinister.
-			</p>
-		{/snippet}
 		{#snippet buttons()}
 			<ul>
 				<li class="mt-2">

src/routes/theme/death/+page.svelte

@@ -13,17 +13,22 @@
 	</a>
 {/snippet}
 
+{#snippet content()}
+	<p>
+		Death is a theme that features consistently in literary beach scenes throughout the long
+		twentieth century, illustrating the dual role of the beach as both a site of relaxation and play
+		as well as potential danger. Its transient nature, ideal for hiding traces and obscuring
+		evidence, makes the beach a compelling setting for crime fiction and murder mysteries. The tides
+		can pull people into the water and also wash death ashore, for example in the form of
+		shipwrecked bodies and beached whales. This underscores the agential capacity of the beach in
+		narratives, as well as its ability to foreground issues of increasing relevance, such as
+		environmental degradation and pollution. As such, this theme highlights the function of the
+		beach as a liminal setting where life, death and decay intersect.
+	</p>
+{/snippet}
 <!-- svelte-ignore element_invalid_self_closing_tag -->
 <SidebarLayout>
 	<svelte:fragment slot="sidebar">
-		{#snippet content()}
-			<p>
-				The theme "Myth" includes a variety of aspects such as re-writings of classical myths and
-				folklore as well as the appearance of mythological and fantastical creatures. Due to the
-				selection of texts, mermaids, selkies and other merfolk appear more in the Northern Seas and
-				Black Atlantic regions, while the Mediterranean features more rewritings of classical myths.
-			</p>
-		{/snippet}
 		{#snippet buttons()}
 			<ul>
 				<li class="mt-2">

src/routes/theme/leisure/+page.svelte

@@ -13,17 +13,24 @@
 	</a>
 {/snippet}
 
+{#snippet content()}
+	<p>
+		The association of the beach with leisure is a relatively recent phenomenon, which only gained
+		traction in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the seaside became more widely
+		accessible. Thus the transformation of the beach into a vacationscape is truly a development of
+		the long twentieth century. This function of the beach has been extraordinarily influential, as
+		shown in our corpus by the surprisingly uniform popularity of leisure as a theme. This suggests
+		that at least in the Western imagination, the beach remains a quintessential holiday
+		destination. As a vacationscape, the beach is a pleasure zone that combines closeness to nature
+		with carefreeness, inspiring visions of departure from routine and the mundane. Leisure often
+		involves play and the sensual experience of nature, but it also means being free for
+		introspection and self-analysis. However, our corpus suggests that it frequently also leads to
+		interpersonal conflict.
+	</p>
+{/snippet}
 <!-- svelte-ignore element_invalid_self_closing_tag -->
 <SidebarLayout>
 	<svelte:fragment slot="sidebar">
-		{#snippet content()}
-			<p>
-				The theme "Myth" includes a variety of aspects such as re-writings of classical myths and
-				folklore as well as the appearance of mythological and fantastical creatures. Due to the
-				selection of texts, mermaids, selkies and other merfolk appear more in the Northern Seas and
-				Black Atlantic regions, while the Mediterranean features more rewritings of classical myths.
-			</p>
-		{/snippet}
 		{#snippet buttons()}
 			<ul>
 				<li class="mt-2">

src/routes/theme/migration/+page.svelte

@@ -13,17 +13,25 @@
 	</a>
 {/snippet}
 
+{#snippet content()}
+	<p>
+		The beach has long been associated with movement and travel. We were particularly interested in
+		the different effects of voluntary (such as tourism) and involuntary (such as exile). Our
+		original hypothesis was that migration and exile would feature prominently both earlier in the
+		century, in literature written during WWII, and towards the end of the long twentieth century.
+		However, in our corpus, migration and exile only begin to appear as relevant themes in the
+		1990s, with an (expected) peak related to the Mediterranean refugee crisis in contemporary texts
+		written since 2010. Additionally, migration and exile play a role in the passage from water to
+		land and vice-versa in merfolk literature. Often, aquatic and terrestrial environments are
+		juxtaposed as opposite worlds, and the characters’ transition is usually final. The beach
+		functions as an important threshold in these instances, since any crossing of the line between
+		land and water is always both an arrival and a departure. A physical transformation frequently
+		emphasises the potential painfulness of such an adaptation to a new environment.
+	</p>
+{/snippet}
 <!-- svelte-ignore element_invalid_self_closing_tag -->
 <SidebarLayout>
 	<svelte:fragment slot="sidebar">
-		{#snippet content()}
-			<p>
-				The theme "Myth" includes a variety of aspects such as re-writings of classical myths and
-				folklore as well as the appearance of mythological and fantastical creatures. Due to the
-				selection of texts, mermaids, selkies and other merfolk appear more in the Northern Seas and
-				Black Atlantic regions, while the Mediterranean features more rewritings of classical myths.
-			</p>
-		{/snippet}
 		{#snippet buttons()}
 			<ul>
 				<li class="mt-2">

src/routes/theme/myth/+page.svelte

@@ -13,17 +13,23 @@
 	</a>
 {/snippet}
 
+{#snippet content()}
+	<p>
+		The category “Myth” includes a variety of aspects such as re-writings of classical myths and
+		folklore as well as the appearance of mythological and fantastical creatures. In our selection
+		of texts, we found that mermaids, selkies and other merfolk appear more in the Northern Seas and
+		Black Atlantic regions, while the Mediterranean features more rewritings of classical myths.
+		Between the 1950s and the 1990s, myth appears to have disappeared from the shores to resurface
+		with full force in the 21st century. This gap could potentially be explained by the presence of
+		more monstrous figures, e.g. gigantic reptilians, in aquatic settings expressing anxieties on
+		nuclear threats during the mid-twentieth century. Since around the turn of the millennium, there
+		has been a growing interest in rewritings of myth and folklore foregrounding the perspective of
+		women.
+	</p>
+{/snippet}
 <!-- svelte-ignore element_invalid_self_closing_tag -->
 <SidebarLayout>
 	<svelte:fragment slot="sidebar">
-		{#snippet content()}
-			<p>
-				The theme "Myth" includes a variety of aspects such as re-writings of classical myths and
-				folklore as well as the appearance of mythological and fantastical creatures. Due to the
-				selection of texts, mermaids, selkies and other merfolk appear more in the Northern Seas and
-				Black Atlantic regions, while the Mediterranean features more rewritings of classical myths.
-			</p>
-		{/snippet}
 		{#snippet buttons()}
 			<ul>
 				<li class="mt-2">

src/routes/theme/pollution/+page.svelte

@@ -13,17 +13,25 @@
 	</a>
 {/snippet}
 
+{#snippet content()}
+	<p>
+		Upon starting this atlas, one of the primary objectives was to determine whether the perception
+		of the beach as site of leisure and holiday had changed throughout the long twentieth century.
+		Considering the growing awareness of global warming and climate change throughout this period,
+		we were curious to see whether this was reflected in literature on the beach. While our findings
+		indicate an increase in descriptions of polluted beaches, particularly from the 2000s onward,
+		the overall number of texts explicitly mentioning pollution is relatively low and even when it
+		does appear, it does not necessarily alter the mood of these scenes significantly.
+		Interestingly, none of the texts in our Mediterranean sample explicitly refer to the pollution
+		of littoral space. This opens up interesting questions concerning the aesthetic and narrative
+		effects of foregrounding or hiding pollution in literary representations. Furthermore, it
+		suggests that despite a slight increase in the depiction of polluted beaches, the perception of
+		the beach as a space of leisure remains largely unchanged.
+	</p>
+{/snippet}
 <!-- svelte-ignore element_invalid_self_closing_tag -->
 <SidebarLayout>
 	<svelte:fragment slot="sidebar">
-		{#snippet content()}
-			<p>
-				The theme "Myth" includes a variety of aspects such as re-writings of classical myths and
-				folklore as well as the appearance of mythological and fantastical creatures. Due to the
-				selection of texts, mermaids, selkies and other merfolk appear more in the Northern Seas and
-				Black Atlantic regions, while the Mediterranean features more rewritings of classical myths.
-			</p>
-		{/snippet}
 		{#snippet buttons()}
 			<ul>
 				<li class="mt-2">