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Poems. (2015)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2015). Poems. In Six Seasons Review. The University Press Limited (UPL)

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

No abstract available.

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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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.

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

No abstract available.

Beautiful Lepers, Monstrous Human: The Impossibility of Utopia in the Strugatskys’ The Ugly Swans. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bouet, E. (2014, July). Beautiful Lepers, Monstrous Human: The Impossibility of Utopia in the Strugatskys’ The Ugly Swans. Presented at Monstrosity

Jerome Cohen argues that the creature or the monster provides a space of interaction: ‘The space of transformation, becoming, passion, alterity, the uncanny, the utopian, is in fact an interspace.’ The relationship and conflict between the monster an... Read More about Beautiful Lepers, Monstrous Human: The Impossibility of Utopia in the Strugatskys’ The Ugly Swans..

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 Homing Bird (2014)
Newspaper / Magazine
Fraser, B. (2014). The Homing Bird

'Kraken'. (2014)
Book Chapter
Alder, E. (2014). 'Kraken'. In J. Weinstock (Ed.), The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters. Ashgate Publishing

'Sea Monsters'. (2014)
Book Chapter
Alder, E. (2014). 'Sea Monsters'. In J. Weinstock (Ed.), The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters. Ashgate Publishing

Journal of Stevenson Studies. (2014)
Book
Dryden, L., & Watson, R. (2014). Journal of Stevenson Studies. Stirling Centre for Scottish Studies

Issue 11 of the Journal of Stevenson Studies, edited by Linda Dryden and Rory Watson, has now been published.

An emigre at home. (2014)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2014). An emigre at home. In S. Mallik (Ed.), Images of Life: Creative and other Forms of Writing. The Book World

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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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.