All Outputs (2)

'On the perimeter and fringe of war': Norman Nicholson, rural modernity and wartime (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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 Contribution
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.