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‘On the perimeter and fringe of war’: Norman Nicholson, Rural Modernity and Wartime (2024)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2024). ‘On the perimeter and fringe of war’: Norman Nicholson, Rural Modernity and Wartime. Modernist Cultures, 19(1), 128 - 151. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2024.0421%29

The author Norman Nicholson is an exemplary writer of rural modernity, acutely conscious of the need for rural areas to remain ‘living and organic communities’, as he puts it in his topographic book Greater Lakeland (1969). Here, I argue that his po... Read More about ‘On the perimeter and fringe of war’: Norman Nicholson, Rural Modernity and Wartime.

The First World War in the 1920s (2024)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. The First World War in the 1920s. In The 1920s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction. Bloomsbury Publishing

A survey of First World War literature in the 1920s.

The First World War and Ford Madox Ford’s Short Stories, 1914–1920 (2024)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2024). The First World War and Ford Madox Ford’s Short Stories, 1914–1920. Humanities, 13(3), Article 86. https://doi.org/10.3390/h13030086

This article analyses together, for the first time, Ford Madox Ford’s short stories about the First World War. A surprisingly unfamiliar form for Ford, who valued allusion, subtlety, and omission as narrative devices, we see in these stories his firs... Read More about The First World War and Ford Madox Ford’s Short Stories, 1914–1920.

"Proved Dead . . . Proved Dead . . .”: Ellipsis, elision and expurgation in interwar First World War prose (2024)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. "Proved Dead . . . Proved Dead . . .”: Ellipsis, elision and expurgation in interwar First World War prose. In A History of Punctuation in English Literature. Cambridge University Press

This chapter addresses the use of various forms of typographical ellipsis. In it I argue that ellipses represent failures of communication which are characteristic of early-twentieth-century writing, pointing to limit experiences which could be desc... Read More about "Proved Dead . . . Proved Dead . . .”: Ellipsis, elision and expurgation in interwar First World War prose.