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Dr Andrew Frayn's Outputs (76)

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). 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). 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 Contribution
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 Contribution
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.

Post-war Fiction and the Literary Marketplace: Gilbert Frankau and Ford Madox Ford (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.

“Without sexual intercourse, frequent and pleasant”: Expurgating Richard Aldington’s Death of a Hero (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.

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.

“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.

“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, Melbourne, Australia

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.

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.

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.

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., Manz, S., & Trimm, C. A Night at Stobs. [Music and Theatre Performance]. 18 June 2018 - 22 June 2018

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

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.