“It was in that way that we used to talk, in July, 1914, of Armageddon”: Wartime in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End Tetralogy (2020)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2020). “It was in that way that we used to talk, in July, 1914, of Armageddon”: Wartime in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End Tetralogy. In T. Ferguson (Ed.), Literature and Modern Time (25-49). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29278-2

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Introduction to H.G Wells "The War of the Worlds" and "The War in the Air" (2017)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2017). Introduction to H.G Wells "The War of the Worlds" and "The War in the Air". In A. Frayn (Ed.), The War of the Worlds and The War in the Air. Wordsworth Editions

Published a decade apart and spanning the turn of the twentieth century, The War of the Worlds (1898) and The War in the Air (1908) are brought together in one volume for the first time in this Wordsworth edition...

What a victory it might have been”: C. E. Montague and the First World War. (2016)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2016). What a victory it might have been”: C. E. Montague and the First World War. In T. Tate, & K. Kennedy (Eds.), The Silent Morning: Culture and Memory After the Armistice (131-148). Manchester University Press

Discusses Montague's post-war prose work in terms of peace and silence.

Ford and the First World War (2015)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2015). Ford and the First World War. In A. Chantler, & R. Hawkes (Eds.), An Introduction to Ford Madox Ford (121-133). Ashgate Publishing

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Writing disenchantment: British First World War prose, 1914-30 (2014)
Book
Frayn, A. (2014). Writing disenchantment: British First World War prose, 1914-30. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719089220.001.0001

This book argues that disenchantment is not only a response to wartime experience, but a condition of modernity with a language that finds extreme expression in First World War literature. The objects of disenchantment are often the very same as the... Read More about Writing disenchantment: British First World War prose, 1914-30.

Richard Aldington's Images, the Metropolis, and the Masses (2014)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2014). Richard Aldington's Images, the Metropolis, and the Masses. Modernist Cultures, 9(2), 260-281. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2014.0086

Richard Aldington’s city poems in the latter part of his 1915 collection Images
are concerned with the masses who inhabit the modern city. Aldington is
at pains to stress his distinction from those he perceives as an increasingly
homogenized crowd... Read More about Richard Aldington's Images, the Metropolis, and the Masses.

In “the black murmuring crowd”: Aldington’s Imagist London (2012)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2012). In “the black murmuring crowd”: Aldington’s Imagist London. In D. Kempton, & H. R. Stoneback (Eds.), Aldington, Pound, and the Imagists at Brunnenburg (27-35). Greagau Press

This battle was not over: Parade’s End as a transitional text in the development of ‘disenchanted’ First World War literature. (2008)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2008). This battle was not over: Parade’s End as a transitional text in the development of ‘disenchanted’ First World War literature. In A. Gąsiorek, & D. Moore (Eds.), Ford Madox Ford: Literary Networks and Cultural Transformations (201-216). Rodopi

This chapter argues that the novels of Ford's Parade's End tetralogy occupy a significant place in the development of "disenchanted" fiction about the First World War. The values of Ernest Raymond's patriotic Tell England are contrasted with those of... Read More about This battle was not over: Parade’s End as a transitional text in the development of ‘disenchanted’ First World War literature..

A Thoroughly Manly Fellow: Masculinity and Manliness in Richard Aldington's Early Fiction (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2005, December). A Thoroughly Manly Fellow: Masculinity and Manliness in Richard Aldington's Early Fiction. Presented at Third International Richard Aldington Conference

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