All Outputs (68)

Dot, dot, dot: Anon., WAAC: The Woman’s Story of the War (1930) (2023)
Digital Artefact
Frayn, A. (2023). Dot, dot, dot: Anon., WAAC: The Woman’s Story of the War (1930). [Podcast]

One of many books about the First World War on the censor’s blacklist, this one claims to offer a new, fresh perspective about the British army. But how much truth can a memoir written by ‘anonymous’ tell? With Dr Andrew Frayn.

Rural modernity, rural modernism and deindustrialisation in Norman Nicholson’s poetry (2023)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2023). Rural modernity, rural modernism and deindustrialisation in Norman Nicholson’s poetry. English Studies, 104(3), 478-499. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2023.2180593

This article argues that the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson (1914–1987) is an exemplary writer about rural modernity, whose work also enables us to conceptualise a rural modernism. Nicholson lived all his life in his home town of Millom, an industria... Read More about Rural modernity, rural modernism and deindustrialisation in Norman Nicholson’s poetry.

Modernist Centenaries, Anniversaries, and Commemorations (2022)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2022). Modernist Centenaries, Anniversaries, and Commemorations. Modernism/modernity, 7(2), https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0242

International Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology of Lost Voices, edited by Constance M. Ruzich, London, Bloomsbury, 2020 (2022)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2023). International Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology of Lost Voices, edited by Constance M. Ruzich, London, Bloomsbury, 2020. English Studies, 104(2), 391-394. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2023.2148422

The War Books Boom in Britain, 1928–1930 (2022)
Journal Article
Frayn, A., & Houston, F. (2022). The War Books Boom in Britain, 1928–1930. First World War Studies, 13(1), 25-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475020.2022.2129718

Based on a dataset of unparalleled extent containing nearly 1500 books, this article for the first time offers an analysis of the War Books Boom that combines the qualitative and quantitative. The Boom did not simply rise and fall; an early peak in p... Read More about The War Books Boom in Britain, 1928–1930.

'On the perimeter and fringe of war': Norman Nicholson, rural modernity and wartime (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Frayn, A. (2022, October). 'On the perimeter and fringe of war': Norman Nicholson, rural modernity and wartime. Paper presented at Gardens in the Gorse: Rural Britain’s Modernist Cultures (Northern Modernism Seminar), Newcastle

The author Norman Nicholson is an exemplary writer of rural modernity, acutely conscious of the need for remote areas to remain ‘living and organic communit[ies]’ (Greater Lakeland) because of his proximity, in his lifetime home of Millom, in the ind... Read More about 'On the perimeter and fringe of war': Norman Nicholson, rural modernity and wartime.

Raymond Williams, Norman Nicholson, and rural modernity (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Frayn, A. (2022, April). Raymond Williams, Norman Nicholson, and rural modernity. Paper presented at Raymond Williams @ 100: A Centenary Conference, Manchester

This paper reads the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson’s writings about the impact of deindustrialisation on rural communities through the lens of Raymond Williams’s theorisation of the rural in modernity – notably The Country and the City, but also tak... Read More about Raymond Williams, Norman Nicholson, and rural modernity.

British War Writing, 1900–1920: Empire, Mass Warfare and Mass Culture (2021)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2021). British War Writing, 1900–1920: Empire, Mass Warfare and Mass Culture. In J. Purdon (Ed.), British Literature in Transition, 1900–1920: A New Age? (106-121). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108648714.007

Representations of conflict in the early twentieth century respond both to the impact of mass industrial warfare, particularly in the First World War, and the development of mass culture following the Education Acts of the late nineteenth century. Co... Read More about British War Writing, 1900–1920: Empire, Mass Warfare and Mass Culture.

War, Empire and Class in D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Frayn, A. (2021, December). War, Empire and Class in D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. Presented at Seminar, University of Gent (online)

Lecture and seminar at Ghent University (online).

Rethinking First World War literature: The War Books Boom, 1928-30 (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Frayn, A. (2021, November). Rethinking First World War literature: The War Books Boom, 1928-30. Presented at Northumbria University Institute of Humanities Seminar Series, Northumbria University

Research talk (50 min) at Northumbria University Institute of Humanities Seminar Series (online).

The UK War Books Boom, 1926-33 (2021)
Dataset
Frayn, A., & Houston, F. (2021). The UK War Books Boom, 1926-33. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17869/enu.2021.2810868

Data for article 'The War Books Boom in Britain, 1928–1930'. For submission to First World War Studies, Oct 2021. Data collected Jan 2020-Aug 2021 from various sources articulated in article.

Richard Aldington, Images of War (1919) and Death of a Hero (1929) (2021)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2021). Richard Aldington, Images of War (1919) and Death of a Hero (1929). In R. Schneider, & J. Potter (Eds.), Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War (183-195). Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110422467-009

Richard Aldington is a distinctive and underrated writer. His Imagist poetry and his coruscating First World War novel Death of a Hero (1929) have continued to receive scholarly attention, but from the first assessments he has tended to be diminished... Read More about Richard Aldington, Images of War (1919) and Death of a Hero (1929).

Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End (tetralogy, 1924–1928) (2021)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2021). Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End (tetralogy, 1924–1928). In R. Schneider, & J. Potter (Eds.), Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War (253-266). Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110422467-015

A key figure in the modernist network, Ford published new writers as the editor of two important journals, The English Review (1908–1910) and the transatlantic review (1924) (Wulfman 2009; Gasiorek 2012). Older than the modernist “jeunes,” who both a... Read More about Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End (tetralogy, 1924–1928).

From Blackstar to Berlin: David Bowie and the manifestation of late style in the Berlin Trilogy (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Frayn, A. (2021, July). From Blackstar to Berlin: David Bowie and the manifestation of late style in the Berlin Trilogy. Paper presented at Beyond the Avant-Garde? Rethinking the Vanguard in British Music since 1970, Goldsmiths and the University of Manchester (online)

David Bowie’s Blackstar (2016) has been written about extensively as a final album, and conceptualised in terms of Theodor W. Adorno and Edward W. Said’s work on late style (e.g. Frayn and Durkin, 2017; McMullan, 2018; Schott, 2020; Graham, 2021). Th... Read More about From Blackstar to Berlin: David Bowie and the manifestation of late style in the Berlin Trilogy.

'Odd how the War changes us': May Sinclair, domesticity and war (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Frayn, A. (2021, June). 'Odd how the War changes us': May Sinclair, domesticity and war. Paper presented at Networking May Sinclair, University of Nantes (online)

This paper sees the post-war novels of the novelist, philosopher and poet May Sinclair (1863-1946) as negotiating between Victorian and modern values and literary forms: the First World War gives existing issues a focus during and after it. A suffra... Read More about 'Odd how the War changes us': May Sinclair, domesticity and war.

“It was in that way that we used to talk, in July, 1914, of Armageddon”: Wartime in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End Tetralogy (2020)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2020). “It was in that way that we used to talk, in July, 1914, of Armageddon”: Wartime in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End Tetralogy. In T. Ferguson (Ed.), Literature and Modern Time (25-49). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29278-2

No abstract available.

Post-war Fiction and the Literary Marketplace: Gilbert Frankau and Ford Madox Ford (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Frayn, A. (2019, October). Post-war Fiction and the Literary Marketplace: Gilbert Frankau and Ford Madox Ford. Paper presented at Upheaval and Reconstruction: Modernist Studies Association Conference, University of Toronto, Canada

Presentation at the Modernist Studies Association conference, on a panel organised by the British Association for Modernist Studies.

Oliver Tearle. The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. (2019)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2020). Oliver Tearle. The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. Review of English Studies, 71(298), 193-195. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgz103

“Without sexual intercourse, frequent and pleasant”: Expurgating Richard Aldington’s Death of a Hero (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Frayn, A. (2019, June). “Without sexual intercourse, frequent and pleasant”: Expurgating Richard Aldington’s Death of a Hero. Paper presented at Troublesome Modernisms: the British Association for Modernist Studies conference, London

Richard Aldington treads a delicate line in his Death of a Hero, between ‘writing in all the buggers and bitches’ and his need to be published and to live by the pen; he borrows from Djuna Barnes the method of asterisking expurgated sections, the vis... Read More about “Without sexual intercourse, frequent and pleasant”: Expurgating Richard Aldington’s Death of a Hero.

Ford and the First World War (2018)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2018). Ford and the First World War. In The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford. Routledge

This chapter surveys Ford Madox Ford's writings about war. He was conscious of war writing by the beginning of the twentieth century via his friendship with Stephen Crane; the First World War, however, was the major conflict for Ford. He wrote abou... Read More about Ford and the First World War.