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Scottish Scene and the ‘Condition of Scotland’ Question (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2025, February). Scottish Scene and the ‘Condition of Scotland’ Question. Presented at 'For I Will Give You The Morning Star': A Celebration of the Life and Work of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, The Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh

“The matter of Scotland”: Gray and MacDiarmid (2025)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. “The matter of Scotland”: Gray and MacDiarmid. In The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray. Edinburgh University Press

This chapter charts the influence on Alasdair Gray’s work of the poet and propogandist for Scottish Renaissance Hugh MacDiarmid’s writings and cultural politics. It analyses the ways in which the spiritual journey or odyssey undertaken by the Drunk M... Read More about “The matter of Scotland”: Gray and MacDiarmid.

‘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.

To ‘Irradiate the Common’: Nan Shepherd and the Scottish Literary Renaissance (2024)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. To ‘Irradiate the Common’: Nan Shepherd and the Scottish Literary Renaissance. In Nan Shepherd: New Critical Essays. Edinburgh University Press

The Scottish Literary Renaissance is one of the main contexts for understanding Nan Shepherd’s work. As her correspondence shows, Shepherd was friends with many of the renaissance’s chief protagonists, and, at the renaissance’s highpoint in the 1920s... Read More about To ‘Irradiate the Common’: Nan Shepherd and the Scottish Literary Renaissance.

The First World War in the 1920s (2024)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (in press). The First World War in the 1920s. In T. Bényei, S. Boskani, & N. Hubble (Eds.), The 1920s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction. Bloomsbury Publishing

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

Beyond the Developmental Narrative of Postcolonial Nation-Time: The Materialities of Water and Geological Faultlines in Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing (2024)
Journal Article
Bhattacharya, A. (2024). Beyond the Developmental Narrative of Postcolonial Nation-Time: The Materialities of Water and Geological Faultlines in Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing. Postcolonial Text, Vol 19(1 & 2),

This chapter explores how Shubhangi Swarup’s novel Latitudes of Longing (2018) breaks out of the developmental narrative of nation-time into an exploration of the impressions of deep time in which events impact human consciousness on a planetary scal... Read More about Beyond the Developmental Narrative of Postcolonial Nation-Time: The Materialities of Water and Geological Faultlines in Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing.

Occult Revival: Lewis Spence’s Weird Renaissance (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2024, July). Occult Revival: Lewis Spence’s Weird Renaissance. Paper presented at The World Congress of Scottish Literatures, University of Nottingham, England

This paper suggest that Lewis Spence’s work – or some of it: specifically, some of his poetry in Scots – evokes the sense of 'The Weird' as defined by Mark Fisher; that is, as Fisher writes in his Introduction to The Weird and the Eerie (2016): ‘the... Read More about Occult Revival: Lewis Spence’s Weird Renaissance.

A Divine Fury (2024)
Book
Bishop, D. (2024). A Divine Fury. (Hardback). Pan Macmillan

A religious serial killer is haunting Florence and only Cesare Aldo can stop them. A Divine Fury is an atmospheric historical thriller by D. V. Bishop, set in Renaissance Italy.

'Full of dash and atmosphere' - The Times

'Fast becoming a serious... Read More about A Divine Fury.

Richard Aldington's Hellenism and the new Modernist Studies (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2024, May). Richard Aldington's Hellenism and the new Modernist Studies. Paper presented at Emerging Perspectives in H.D.’s Hellenic Modernity and the Future of New Modernist Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece [online]

Contribution to roundtable on ‘H.D. and Richard Aldington: “It was you who taught me to love those things…”.’
Other participants: Prof Elizabeth Vandiver (Whitman College, USA), Dr Caroline Zilboorg (Clare Hall, Cambridge)
Conference: Emerging Per... Read More about Richard Aldington's Hellenism and the new Modernist Studies.

'The Omnific Word': Hugh MacDiarmid's Religious Poetry (2024)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. 'The Omnific Word': Hugh MacDiarmid's Religious Poetry. In Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023: Visions & Revisions. Brill Academic Publishers

Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid (C. M. Grieve) considered himself an atheist, but his poetry attends to religious and spiritual themes and concerns. This chapter sets MacDiarmid’s work in the context of New Modernist Studies’ approaches to literature a... Read More about 'The Omnific Word': Hugh MacDiarmid's Religious Poetry.

Norman Nicholson and rural wartime (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2024, May). Norman Nicholson and rural wartime. Presented at Cultural Landscapes, University of Cumbria, Ambleside

A different version of this paper is published as ‘Rural modernity and wartime in Norman Nicholson’s poetry.’ Modernist Cultures. See corresponding entry.

"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.

The Health of the Nation: Critical Pathologies of the Long Scottish Revival (2024)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. The Health of the Nation: Critical Pathologies of the Long Scottish Revival. In The Scottish Literary and Cultural Revival, 1880s–1950s. Edinburgh University Press

This chapter examines the way critics of Scottish literary culture have tended historically to read revival as a sign of the cultural health or ill-health of the nation, consequently pathologising the literary culture and limiting the terms of critic... Read More about The Health of the Nation: Critical Pathologies of the Long Scottish Revival.