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The novel between the wars (2020)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (in press). The novel between the wars. In I. Duncan (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Scottish Literature. Cambridge University Press

No abstract available. Forthcoming 2022.

Scottish Modernism and the “Renaissance” (2020)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (in press). Scottish Modernism and the “Renaissance”. In I. Duncan (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Scottish Literature. Cambridge University Press

No abstract available. Forthcoming 2023.

Nan Shepherd, Scotland and the nature of rural modernism (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2019, May). Nan Shepherd, Scotland and the nature of rural modernism. Presented at Modernist Legacies and Futures: Modernist Studies Ireland inaugural conference, NUI Galway, Ireland

No abstract available.

Minor Modernisms: The Scottish Renaissance and the Translation of German-language Modernism (2019)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2019). Minor Modernisms: The Scottish Renaissance and the Translation of German-language Modernism. Modernist Cultures, 14(2), 213-235. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2019.0251

Germany has been epitomised in the twentieth century as Britain’s main rival and adversary. Yet Scottish modernists were influenced by Germany and German-language modernism to think more internationally about their nation and work, a cultural encount... Read More about Minor Modernisms: The Scottish Renaissance and the Translation of German-language Modernism.

Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel (2016)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2016). Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (1-24). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004317451_002

While ‘community’ as a concept has come under increasing attack in a neoliberal era, it has remained in Scotland a mythic, though not unexamined, signifier of resistance to perceived threats to national identity. Community, central to the Scottish no... Read More about Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel.

"Fiery Speech": Vision and Violence in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Patrick Pearse (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2016, August). "Fiery Speech": Vision and Violence in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Patrick Pearse. Paper presented at ESSE 2016, National University of Ireland, Galway

This paper examines the work of two of the main protagonists behind the cultural and political revival of Ireland in the early twentieth century, W. B. Yeats and Patrick Pearse, looking particularly at some of the religious and spiritual ideas and em... Read More about "Fiery Speech": Vision and Violence in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Patrick Pearse.