All Outputs (68)

Edgelands without a centre: Norman Nicholson and post-industry (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2018, November). Edgelands without a centre: Norman Nicholson and post-industry. Presented at English research seminar, University of Edinburgh

A poet whose first editor at Faber & Faber was T.S. Eliot, Norman Nicholson (1914-87) lived his whole life in Millom, an ironworks town in the south-west of Cumbria, away from but within sight of the major fells of the Lake District. Nicholson’s fam... Read More about Edgelands without a centre: Norman Nicholson and post-industry.

Montague, Charles Edward (1867–1928) (2018)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2018). Montague, Charles Edward (1867–1928). In Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781135000356-rem2114-1

Entry in Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism.

“The war had only finished what Queenie had begun”: May Sinclair, gender, and war (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2018, September). “The war had only finished what Queenie had begun”: May Sinclair, gender, and war. Paper presented at 1918-2018: The End of the War & the Reshaping of a Century, University of Wolverhampton

Andrew Frayn’s paper focuses on the post-war moment, examining the novelist, poet and philosopher May Sinclair’s post-war work. Sinclair volunteered for the Munro Ambulance Corps in 1914, and her experience of the war stimulated a sustained burst of... Read More about “The war had only finished what Queenie had begun”: May Sinclair, gender, and war.

Toby Martinez de las Rivas, Black Sun (Faber & Faber) £9.90 (2018)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2018). Toby Martinez de las Rivas, Black Sun (Faber & Faber) £9.90. PN Review, 45(1),

“They fell to pieces at a touch”: Richard Aldington, the First World War and the male body (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2018, July). “They fell to pieces at a touch”: Richard Aldington, the First World War and the male body. Paper presented at International Richard Aldington Society Conference, Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France

Richard Aldington’s poems in Images of War (1919) return insistently to the impact of the First World War on the male body. Drawing on theoretical work about bodies in war such as Joanna Bourke’s Dismembering the Male (1996), I argue that Aldington’s... Read More about “They fell to pieces at a touch”: Richard Aldington, the First World War and the male body.

Rewriting and remembering: R.H. Mottram and the First World War, 1914-1971 (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2018, July). Rewriting and remembering: R.H. Mottram and the First World War, 1914-1971. Paper presented at Recording, Narrating and Archiving the First World War: International Society for First World War Studies Conference, Deakin University,

In this paper I examine the ways in which R.H. Mottram continued to rewrite the First World War throughout his literary career. The Spanish Farm Trilogy is deservedly a canonical text of that conflict, and the success of those first three novels enab... Read More about Rewriting and remembering: R.H. Mottram and the First World War, 1914-1971.

Introduction: War and Memory (2018)
Journal Article
Frayn, A., & Phillips, T. (2018). Introduction: War and Memory. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 11(3), 181-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2018.1490075

This introduction situates the articles in this journal issue within recent scholarship about war and memory. The plethora of available terminology is addressed, tracing memory studies back to the rediscovery of Maurice Halbwachs’s theories of colle... Read More about Introduction: War and Memory.

Social Remembering, Disenchantment and First World War Literature, 1918–1930 (2018)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2018). Social Remembering, Disenchantment and First World War Literature, 1918–1930. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 11(3), 192-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2018.1490072

The way that the First World War would be remembered was yet to be solidified in the years immediately after the Armistice and peace treaties. Using key case studies from the years 1918 to 1930 by combatant authors Gilbert Frankau, Ernest Raymond, C... Read More about Social Remembering, Disenchantment and First World War Literature, 1918–1930.

Lustspielabend: A Night at Stobs [Programme Brochure accompanying public performances] (2018)
Other
Schwan, A., Davie, I., Frayn, A., Durkin, R., & Manz, S. (2018). Lustspielabend: A Night at Stobs [Programme Brochure accompanying public performances]

This programme brochure was developed for audiences attending the 'A Night at Stobs' evening of theatre and music in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Hawick in June 2018. It contains information on the background to the performance, and the wider context of cr... Read More about Lustspielabend: A Night at Stobs [Programme Brochure accompanying public performances].

A Night at Stobs (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Schwan, A., Davie, I., Frayn, A., Martin, S., Dempster, K., Durkin, R., …Trimm, C. A Night at Stobs. [Music and Theatre Performance]. 18 June 2018 - 22 June 2018. (Unpublished)

An evening of music and comedy, based on material found at Stobs Camp, a First World War internment camp in the Scottish Borders. Performances at Chalmers Church, Edinburgh (18 June 2018), Cottiers Theatre, Glasgow (19 June 2018), and Tower Mill The... Read More about A Night at Stobs.

German prisoners held comedy nights in British war camps – we recreated one (2018)
Newspaper / Magazine
Frayn, A. (2018). German prisoners held comedy nights in British war camps – we recreated one. [The Conversation]

This article engages with the history of First World War internment, both civilian and prisoner of war. The focus is the Stobs Camp, near Hawick, and the theatre show A Night at Stobs, part of a public engagement project.

Northernness, rurality and modernity in the works of Norman Nicholson (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2018, May). Northernness, rurality and modernity in the works of Norman Nicholson. Paper presented at Orientations: A Conference of Narrative and Place, University of Nottingham

In the introduction to the Collected Poems of Norman Nicholson (1914-87), Neil Curry highlights the systematic denigration of writers from the north of England by metropolitan literary networks. The Times obituary described Nicholson as ‘the most gif... Read More about Northernness, rurality and modernity in the works of Norman Nicholson.

Introduction to H.G Wells "The War of the Worlds" and "The War in the Air" (2017)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2017). Introduction to H.G Wells "The War of the Worlds" and "The War in the Air". In A. Frayn (Ed.), The War of the Worlds and The War in the Air. Wordsworth Editions

Published a decade apart and spanning the turn of the twentieth century, The War of the Worlds (1898) and The War in the Air (1908) are brought together in one volume for the first time in this Wordsworth edition...

Nanette Norris, ed., Great War Modernism: Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914–1918 (2017)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2017). Nanette Norris, ed., Great War Modernism: Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914–1918. Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies, 4(3), 193-197

Modernism and Imagist Poetry (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2017, July). Modernism and Imagist Poetry. Presented at Scottish Universities International Summer School, University of Edinburgh

Lecture to the Scottish Universities' International Summer School, University of Edinburgh.

Popular Modernisms? Resituating R. H. Mottram’s post-war fiction (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2017, April). Popular Modernisms? Resituating R. H. Mottram’s post-war fiction. Paper presented at The Fictional First World War: Imagination and Memory Since 1914, University of Aberdeen

R.H. Mottram’s critically-acclaimed novels of The Spanish Farm Trilogy (1924-27) used to great effect his experience of the defining historical event of the age. These were his first novels, although he had previously been on the periphery of London’... Read More about Popular Modernisms? Resituating R. H. Mottram’s post-war fiction.

Introduction: Modernism and the First World War (2017)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2017). Introduction: Modernism and the First World War. Modernist Cultures, 12(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2017.0153

Introduction to special issue of Modernist Cultures on Modernism and the First World War. Surveys recent critical issues at the intersection of First World War and Modernist Studies, and introduces essays in the issue.

"It was in that way that we used to talk, in July, 1914, of Armageddon”: War, Simultaneity and Rupture in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2017, March). "It was in that way that we used to talk, in July, 1914, of Armageddon”: War, Simultaneity and Rupture in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End. Paper presented at Scottish Network of Modernist Studies workshop, University of Edinburgh

“Now – Well, Look at the Chart”: Mapping, Maps and Literature (2017)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2017). “Now – Well, Look at the Chart”: Mapping, Maps and Literature. In S. D. Brunn, & M. Dodge (Eds.), Mapping Across Academia (259-285). Dordrecht: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1011-2_13

This chapter examines the resistance in literary criticism to making maps. Literary analysis is deeply invested in the construction of space and associated theories, but these have rarely been cartographical. Recent work that discusses the developmen... Read More about “Now – Well, Look at the Chart”: Mapping, Maps and Literature.

David Bowie’s late revival belongs to a grand tradition dating back to Beethoven (2017)
Newspaper / Magazine
Frayn, A., & Durkin, R. (2017). David Bowie’s late revival belongs to a grand tradition dating back to Beethoven. https://theconversation.com/david-bowies-late-revival-belongs-to-a-grand-tradition-dating-back-to-beethoven-71031

On David Bowie's Blackstar as embodying aspects of late style, as discussed by Theodor Adorno and Edward Said. https://theconversation.com/david-bowies-late-revival-belongs-to-a-grand-tradition-dating-back-to-beethoven-71031