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Mastering the Shakespeare Audition (2016)
Book
Soto-Morettini, D. (2016). Mastering the Shakespeare Audition. Bloomsbury Publishing

Mastering the Shakespeare Audition is a practical collection of approaches to analysing the structure of Shakespeare's monologue texts, understanding the prosody and metre, and building a solid preparation and rehearsal process.
Starting with how to... Read More about Mastering the Shakespeare Audition.

Representations of Feminist and Lesbian Consciousness and the Use of Subversive Strategies in Selected Poetry of Isabella Jane Blagden (2016)
Thesis
Gordon, S. R. Representations of Feminist and Lesbian Consciousness and the Use of Subversive Strategies in Selected Poetry of Isabella Jane Blagden. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/453489

The purpose of this study is to recover and revise the contribution made to women's writing by the English minor novelist and poet, Isabella Jane Blagden (1817-1873), who was the centrifugal force of an influential literary and artistic milieu in Ita... Read More about Representations of Feminist and Lesbian Consciousness and the Use of Subversive Strategies in Selected Poetry of Isabella Jane Blagden.

Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community (2016)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2016). Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (82-102). Brill Academic Publishers

This chapter suggests two main related points. The overarching contention is that Hugh MacDiarmid was a poetic, political, polemical, and metaphysical impossibilist (rather than merely the extremist of caricature). More particularly, in an attempt to... Read More about Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community.

In search of community (2016)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2016). In search of community. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (vii-xiii). Brill Academic Publishers

Community derives from the Latin root word communis (common), which itself breaks down into two possible derivations [...]. The first, com plus munis (what is indebted, bound, or obligated together), is thought to be more philologically accurate, whi... Read More about In search of community.

Marginalisation Vs. Emancipation: The (New) Woman Question in Dollie Radford’s diary and poetry (2016)
Thesis
Azhar, H. J. Marginalisation Vs. Emancipation: The (New) Woman Question in Dollie Radford’s diary and poetry. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/452895

This thesis sheds light on Dollie Radford as one of the talented women writers whose work is still insufficiently acknowledged by contemporary studies because of the lack of extant information about her life. LeeAnne Richardson, Ruth Livesey, and Emi... Read More about Marginalisation Vs. Emancipation: The (New) Woman Question in Dollie Radford’s diary and poetry.

The Poetry of Modernity (1870–1950) (2015)
Book Chapter
Dymock, E., & Lyall, S. (2015). The Poetry of Modernity (1870–1950). In C. Sassi (Ed.), The International Companion to Scottish Poetry (74-82). Association for Scottish Literary Studies

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The battle for civilisation in Gibbon’s science fiction (2015)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2015). The battle for civilisation in Gibbon’s science fiction. In S. Lyall (Ed.), The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon (119-132). Association for Scottish Literary Studies

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The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon (2015)
Book
Lyall, S. (Ed.). (2015). The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Association for Scottish Literary Studies

Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell), the author of the acclaimed trilogy A Scots Quair – Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite – is one of the most important Scottish writers of the early twentieth century. This International Companion pr... Read More about The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon.

Useful Darkness: Intersections between Medical Humanities and Gothic Studies (2015)
Journal Article
Wasson, S.-P. (2015). Useful Darkness: Intersections between Medical Humanities and Gothic Studies. Gothic Studies, 17(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.7227/GS.17.1.1

Gothic studies has long been concerned with representations of the fragility of human flesh in the grip of illness, as well as bodies confined by medical and legal discourse. The direction of influence goes both ways: Gothic literary elements have ar... Read More about Useful Darkness: Intersections between Medical Humanities and Gothic Studies.

The Kailyard's Ghost: community in modern Scottish fiction (2014)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2014). The Kailyard's Ghost: community in modern Scottish fiction. In I. Brown, & J. Berton (Eds.), Roots and Fruits of Scottish Culture: Scottish Identities, History and Contemporary Literature (82-96). Association for Scottish Literary Studies

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The Tunnel, by Dorothy Richardson (2014)
Book
(2014). T. Thomson, & S. Ross (Eds.), The Tunnel, by Dorothy Richardson. (Broadview Press)

The Tunnel is the fourth volume in Dorothy Richardson’s novel series Pilgrimage. The series, set in the years 1893-1912, chronicles the life of Miriam Henderson, a “New Woman” rejecting the Victorian ideals of femininity and domesticity in favour of... Read More about The Tunnel, by Dorothy Richardson.

Pointed Roofs, by Dorothy Richardson (2014)
Book
(2014). T. Thomson, & S. Ross (Eds.), Pointed Roofs, by Dorothy Richardson. (Broadview Press)

The first chapter-volume of Dorothy Richardson’s thirteen-volume novel series
Pilgrimage, Pointed Roofs is a coming of age story. The protagonist is Miriam Henderson, seventeen years old. Pointed Roofs tells the tale of Miriam’s first adventure as a... Read More about Pointed Roofs, by Dorothy Richardson.

Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance (2012)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2012). Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance. In G. Carruthers, & L. McIlvanney (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature (173-187). Cambridge University Press

Though commonly viewed as definitively rural and nationalist, the Scottish Literary Renaissance was actually begun in London by an émigré community of Burnsian Scots. The Vernacular Circle of the London Robert Burns Club, set up in 1920 to save the D... Read More about Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance.