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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.

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.

‘That ancient self’: Scottish Modernism’s Counter-Renaissance (2014)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2014). ‘That ancient self’: Scottish Modernism’s Counter-Renaissance. European Journal of English Studies, 18(1), 73-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2014.881106

This essay argues that the twentieth-century movement of literary and cultural revival known as the Scottish Renaissance was, like the Irish Revival lead by W.B. Yeats, a counter-Renaissance against the anti-national ideals of the Renaissance; it was... Read More about ‘That ancient self’: Scottish Modernism’s Counter-Renaissance.

poem:Mariam (2014)
Journal Article
Fraser, B. (2014). poem:Mariam. Café Dissensus,

A poem on public execution.

Translating Modernism: The Scottish Renaissance Movement and German-language Modernism (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2013, December). Translating Modernism: The Scottish Renaissance Movement and German-language Modernism. Paper presented at World-literatures, Discrepant Transnationalisms: Beyond Region and Nation?, Stuttgart, Germany

The Scottish Renaissance Movement of the 1920-30s was a response to what many literary artists of the period saw as Scotland’s provincialisation within the United Kingdom and the British Empire. Hugh MacDiarmid, arguably the main protagonist of the m... Read More about Translating Modernism: The Scottish Renaissance Movement and German-language Modernism.

Review of 'The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen': (2013)
Book Chapter
Artt, S., Longden, K., McCabe, J., Formica, S., Tucker, P., & Wyver, J. (2013). Review of 'The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen':. In L. Raw, & R. G. Dryden (Eds.), Global Jane Austen; Pleasure, Passion, and Possessiveness in the Jane Austen Community. Palgrave Macmillan

Frederick William Robinson and the Literary Tradition of Low Life (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2013, September). Frederick William Robinson and the Literary Tradition of Low Life. Paper presented at Lesser Victorians: Beyond the Canon in Victorian Fiction, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin

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The trial of Alexander Trocchi. (2013)
Book Chapter
McCleery, A. (2013). The trial of Alexander Trocchi. In E. Bell, & L. Gunn (Eds.), The Scottish Sixties: Reading, Rebellion, Revolution? (135-142). Rodopi

'"The Difference Between Us": Conrad, Ford, Wells and the English Novel' (2013)
Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2013). '"The Difference Between Us": Conrad, Ford, Wells and the English Novel'. Studies in the Novel, 45, 214-33

The focus of this paper is H. G. Wells’s brief friendship with Joseph Conrad in the closing years of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. It was a friendship that would end in resentment, estrangement, and much disagreement ov... Read More about '"The Difference Between Us": Conrad, Ford, Wells and the English Novel'.

Conrad, Ford, Wells and Modernism (2012)
Journal Article
Dryden, L. (2012). Conrad, Ford, Wells and Modernism. L'Epoque Conradienne,

This article develops on my previous work on Conrad and Wells, but brings Ford more firmly into the frame. The argument centres on how Conrad and Ford discussed their efforts to create a 'New Form' for the English novel. It positions Wells as being m... Read More about Conrad, Ford, Wells and Modernism.

J. Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon and exploration (2012)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2012). J. Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon and exploration. Scottish Literary Review, 4, 131-150

The article presents the literary works of James Leslie Mitchell using the pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon. It discusses Mitchell's adventurous spirit as reflected in the travel exploits of his characters in "The Lost Trumpet," "Hanno" and "The Thirte... Read More about J. Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon and exploration.

‘Bless the Gods for my pencils and paper’: Katie Gliddon's prison diary, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the suffragettes at Holloway (2012)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2013). ‘Bless the Gods for my pencils and paper’: Katie Gliddon's prison diary, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the suffragettes at Holloway. Women's History Review, 22(1), 148-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2012.724917

This article discusses the life and imprisonment of the largely unknown middle-class artist and suffrage activist Katie Gliddon and analyzes her extensive prison diary, secretly written and drawn in her copy of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shel... Read More about ‘Bless the Gods for my pencils and paper’: Katie Gliddon's prison diary, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the suffragettes at Holloway.

The Museum of Atheism. (2012)
Book
Joyce, L. E. (2012). The Museum of Atheism. Salt Publishing

It is Christmas Eve in a mountainous, isolated prison community, the day of the baby beauty pageant. Ava is the star attraction. She's six years old. Ava's older brother Jonny hears strange noises in the attic and sees his father go out late at night... Read More about The Museum of Atheism..