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.

'Woman’s Wrongs’: gender, free love and the law in Susan Willis Fletcher’s "Twelve Months in an English Prison" (1884) (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2012, June). 'Woman’s Wrongs’: gender, free love and the law in Susan Willis Fletcher’s "Twelve Months in an English Prison" (1884). Paper presented at Taking Liberties: Sex, Pleasure, Coercion (1748-1928), Newcastle University, UK

No abstract available.

Adultery, gender and the nation: the trial and Imprisonment of Florence Maybrick (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2012, April). Adultery, gender and the nation: the trial and Imprisonment of Florence Maybrick. Paper presented at Bodies of Evidence: Crime, Gender, and Representation, Newcastle University, UK

The "Coven of the Articulate": orality and community in Anne Rice's vampire fiction (2012)
Journal Article
Wasson, S.-P. (2012). The "Coven of the Articulate": orality and community in Anne Rice's vampire fiction. Journal of Popular Culture, 45(1), 197-213. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2011.00919.x

Anne Rice's twelve vampire “autobiographies” continue to be hugely influential for vampire fiction and other artifacts of popular culture. This article explores two tropes which structure and enable the vampire communities throughout the twelve text... Read More about The "Coven of the Articulate": orality and community in Anne Rice's vampire fiction.

Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap cycle (2011)
Book Chapter
Alder, E. (2011). Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap cycle. In S.-P. Wasson, & E. Alder (Eds.), Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010. Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846317071.003.0008

This chapter offers a literary criticism of Stephen Donaldson's novel Gap. It discusses that transfiguration of the body, through the study of molecular biology and genetic engineering, creates a cultural unrest and horror. The strange metamorphosis... Read More about Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap cycle.

"Our Little Life is Rounded with Sleep": The Scottish presence in Andrew Greig's "In Another Light" and Amitav Ghosh's "The Hungry Tide". (2011)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2011). "Our Little Life is Rounded with Sleep": The Scottish presence in Andrew Greig's "In Another Light" and Amitav Ghosh's "The Hungry Tide". In M. Gardiner, G. Macdonald, & N. O'Gallagher (Eds.), Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature (210-221). Edinburgh University Press

On cosmopolitanism and late style: Lewis Grassic Gibbon and James Joyce. (2011)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2011). On cosmopolitanism and late style: Lewis Grassic Gibbon and James Joyce. In E. Dymock, & M. P. McCulloch (Eds.), Scottish and International Modernisms. Association for Scottish Literary Studies

Crime (2011)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2011). Crime. In S. Ledger, & H. Furneaux (Eds.), Charles Dickens in Context (301-309). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511975493.039

Reflecting on society's treatment of convicts in 1891, Oscar Wilde declared that ‘one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more br... Read More about Crime.

‘Crying with Phantom Tongue’: the politics of lamentation in Mervyn Peake’s wartime poetry. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wasson, S.-P. (2011, July). ‘Crying with Phantom Tongue’: the politics of lamentation in Mervyn Peake’s wartime poetry. Presented at Poetry and Melancholia

Recent studies of nation and memory propose a new ethics of mourning in which normative mourning – working through grief, accepting loss, and ultimately finding solace – is increasingly seen as ethically suspect. The challenges normative mourning pos... Read More about ‘Crying with Phantom Tongue’: the politics of lamentation in Mervyn Peake’s wartime poetry..

Sentient ruins and the ventriloquised dead: Mervyn Peake’s wartime poetry. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wasson, S.-P. (2011, July). Sentient ruins and the ventriloquised dead: Mervyn Peake’s wartime poetry. Presented at Mervyn Peake and the Fantasy Tradition

This paper explores a key fantasy trope in Peake’s wartime poetry, arguing that his work offers a valuable counterweight to dominant period discourses of nationhood. Adam Roberts opens the way to such analysis, noting that the Titus books are ‘accoun... Read More about Sentient ruins and the ventriloquised dead: Mervyn Peake’s wartime poetry..

Introduction: Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010 (2011)
Book Chapter
Alder, E., & Wasson, S.-P. (2011). Introduction: Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010. In Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010. Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846317071.003.0001

This Introduction introduces Gothic science fiction as a genre and discusses the text as a project to examine Gothic science fiction historically as well as to distinguish its textual forms. The chapters in this compilation provides sample writings p... Read More about Introduction: Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010.

Introduction (2011)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S., & Palmer McCulloch, M. (2011). Introduction. In S. Lyall, & M. P. McCulloch (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid (1-5). Edinburgh University Press

Literary affinities and the postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad. (2011)
Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2011). Literary affinities and the postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad. In M. Gardiner, G. Macdonald, & N. O'Gallagher (Eds.), Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives (86-97). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637744.003.0006

This paper offers a comparative study of some of the colonial fictions of Stevenson and Conrad. It takes a postcolonial position, arguing that both Stevenson and Conrad were moving in the direction of literary modernism as they wrote fictions that at... Read More about Literary affinities and the postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad..

Introduction - Reading and Writing in Prison (2011)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2011). Introduction - Reading and Writing in Prison. Critical Survey, 23(3), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2011.230301

No abstract available.

Special issue of Critical Survey - Reading and Writing in Prison. Anne Schwan is guest editor.

"A butcher's shop where the meat still moved": Gothic doubles, organ harvesting and human cloning. (2011)
Book Chapter
Wasson, S.-P. (2011). "A butcher's shop where the meat still moved": Gothic doubles, organ harvesting and human cloning. In S.-P. Wasson, & E. Alder (Eds.), Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010 (73-86). Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846317071.003.0005

This timely book explores what might be termed Gothic science fiction of the last three decades, 1980-2010. Identifying texts by this category may at first appear contradictory, as the Gothic's connotations of the irrational and supernatural seems to... Read More about "A butcher's shop where the meat still moved": Gothic doubles, organ harvesting and human cloning..

Representations of Community in Twentieth-Century Scottish Fiction (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2011, October). Representations of Community in Twentieth-Century Scottish Fiction. Paper presented at Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS) Conference, The roots and the fruits of contemporary Scotland: literature and society, Universite Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France

Modernist Cosmopolitanation: Lewis Grassic Gibbon and James Joyce. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2011, October). Modernist Cosmopolitanation: Lewis Grassic Gibbon and James Joyce. Paper presented at Scottish Network of Modernist Studies (SNoMS), Scottish Modernisms: Relationships and Reconfigurations Symposium, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

‘East is West and West is East’: Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Quest for Ultimate Cosmopolitanism (2011)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2011). ‘East is West and West is East’: Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Quest for Ultimate Cosmopolitanism. In M. Gardiner, G. Macdonald, & N. O'Gallagher (Eds.), Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives (136-146). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637744.003.0010

This chapter addresses Lewis Grassic Gibbon's quest to shatter the colonial conception of East and West and return to an age of cosmopolitanism. His idealistic model of a cosmopolitan future is deeply informed by his reading of the past as adapted fr... Read More about ‘East is West and West is East’: Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Quest for Ultimate Cosmopolitanism.

MacDiarmid, communism and the poetry of commitment (2011)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2011). MacDiarmid, communism and the poetry of commitment. In S. Lyall, & M. P. McCulloch (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid (68-81). Edinburgh University Press

Book Review of "Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999-2009" by Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn. (2011)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2011). Book Review of "Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999-2009" by Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn. Contemporary Women's Writing, 5(2), 161-162. https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpr004

No abstract available.