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The War Books Boom in Britain, 1928–1930 (2022)
Journal Article
Frayn, A., & Houston, F. (2022). The War Books Boom in Britain, 1928–1930. First World War Studies, 13(1), 25-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475020.2022.2129718

Based on a dataset of unparalleled extent containing nearly 1500 books, this article for the first time offers an analysis of the War Books Boom that combines the qualitative and quantitative. The Boom did not simply rise and fall; an early peak in p... Read More about The War Books Boom in Britain, 1928–1930.

Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End (tetralogy, 1924–1928) (2021)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2021). Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End (tetralogy, 1924–1928). In R. Schneider, & J. Potter (Eds.), Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War (253-266). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110422467-015

A key figure in the modernist network, Ford published new writers as the editor of two important journals, The English Review (1908–1910) and the transatlantic review (1924) (Wulfman 2009; Gasiorek 2012). Older than the modernist “jeunes,” who both a... Read More about Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End (tetralogy, 1924–1928).

Scottish Scene, or The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Albyn (2022)
Book
Lyall, S. (in press). Scottish Scene, or The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Albyn. Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literature

Scottish Scene, or The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Albyn was first published by Jarrolds in 1934. Widely reviewed at the time, it quickly became one of the most controversial texts of the Scottish literary renaissance of the early decades of the twent... Read More about Scottish Scene, or The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Albyn.

Sacred Violence: W. B. Yeats, Patrick Pearse, and The Revival of Ireland (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2022, September). Sacred Violence: W. B. Yeats, Patrick Pearse, and The Revival of Ireland. Presented at 'Crossing Borders', School of Humanities Seminar Series 2022/23, University of Strathclyde

This paper frames the Irish Revival as a meta-symbolical attempt to reinterpret and reimagine the cultural and political narrative of Irish history. It focuses on the manner in which religious and spiritual beliefs and ideas were utilised by key Iris... Read More about Sacred Violence: W. B. Yeats, Patrick Pearse, and The Revival of Ireland.

Arctic Ghosts: Whale Hunting and Haunting in Arthur Conan Doyle’s 'The Captain of the Pole-Star' (2022)
Journal Article
Alder, E. (2022). Arctic Ghosts: Whale Hunting and Haunting in Arthur Conan Doyle’s 'The Captain of the Pole-Star'. Victorian Studies, 65(1), 43-66

Over-hunting in Arctic seas drove bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) nearly to extinction by the end of the nineteenth century. Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Captain of the ‘Pole-Star’” (1883), inspired by his youthful 1880 voyage on the Scottish whalin... Read More about Arctic Ghosts: Whale Hunting and Haunting in Arthur Conan Doyle’s 'The Captain of the Pole-Star'.

Rural modernity, rural modernism and deindustrialisation in Norman Nicholson’s poetry (2023)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2023). Rural modernity, rural modernism and deindustrialisation in Norman Nicholson’s poetry. English Studies, 104(3), 478-499. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2023.2180593

This article argues that the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson (1914–1987) is an exemplary writer about rural modernity, whose work also enables us to conceptualise a rural modernism. Nicholson lived all his life in his home town of Millom, an industria... Read More about Rural modernity, rural modernism and deindustrialisation in Norman Nicholson’s poetry.

Comic: The Ghost Canoe [Fantomen 25-26/2022] (2022)
Other
Bishop, D. (2022). Comic: The Ghost Canoe [Fantomen 25-26/2022]. [Print]. Stockholm

The 17th Phantom's sister Julie Walker battles murderous robbers and a volcanic eruption in New Zealand during 1886.

Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles (2022)
Book
Alder, E., Packham, J., & Passey, J. (Eds.). (2022). Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles. London: British Library

From foreboding cliffs and lonely lighthouses to rumbling shingles and silted estuaries, the coasts of the British Isles have stoked the imaginations of storytellers for millennia, lending a rich literary significance to these spaces between land and... Read More about Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles.

Weird Sisters: Victorian women’s ghost stories and a new look at the weird tale (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2019, August). Weird Sisters: Victorian women’s ghost stories and a new look at the weird tale. Paper presented at Victorian Renewals: British Association of Victorian Studies Conference 2019, University of Dundee

In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, weird fiction looks like a masculine tradition. While there are numerous women among recent ‘New Weird’ writers, female authorship of early weird tales barely shows up next to the success of H. P.... Read More about Weird Sisters: Victorian women’s ghost stories and a new look at the weird tale.

'Always Sea and Sea': The Night Land as Sea-scape (2013)
Journal Article
Alder, E. (2013). 'Always Sea and Sea': The Night Land as Sea-scape. Sargasso: The Journal of William Hope Hodgson Studies, 1(1), 89-101

Biographical accounts of William Hope Hodgson naturally tend to focus on two main features of his career before he became a full-time writer: sailing and physical culture (Everts). Both provide useful contexts for reading Hodgson’s fiction. In some e... Read More about 'Always Sea and Sea': The Night Land as Sea-scape.

Global Trend in Retrofitting Using Smart Technology: A Scientometric Review (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ejidike, C., Mewomo, M., & Olawumi, T. O. (2022, July). Global Trend in Retrofitting Using Smart Technology: A Scientometric Review. Presented at 12th CIDB Conference on 'Towards a sustainable construction industry: The role of innovation and digitalisation', East London, South Africa

Retrofitting an existing structure enhances its energy efficiency, aesthetic appearance, and thermal comfort while also reducing the building’s energy costs. Buildings account for 40% of global energy consumption, which is al-so responsible for CO2 e... Read More about Global Trend in Retrofitting Using Smart Technology: A Scientometric Review.

"Wherefore I seek a poetry of facts": Science in Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2023, April). "Wherefore I seek a poetry of facts": Science in Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry. Presented at The British Society for Literature and Science Eighteenth Annual Conference, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

Best known as a modernist poet in Scots, Hugh MacDiarmid’s later poetry moved away from its earlier lyricism to become a ‘poetry of facts’ written in terminological English. His appropriation of scientific sources was central to this. This paper look... Read More about "Wherefore I seek a poetry of facts": Science in Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry.

Foreword by Dr. Emily Adler (2020)
Book Chapter
Alder, E. (2020). Foreword by Dr. Emily Adler. In Footsteps in the Dark: Short Stories, Anthology of New & Classic Tales (8-9). London: Flame Tree Publishing

Time and the Terrors of the Shoreline in Dunsany and Wells (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2022, July). Time and the Terrors of the Shoreline in Dunsany and Wells. Paper presented at Gothic Interruptions: 16th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

The shoreline is a popular stage for the end of the world in fin-de-siècle fiction – it is upon a shore that H. G. Wells’s Time Traveller witnesses the final remnant of animal life, William Hope Hodgson’s Recluse discovers the meaning of eternity, an... Read More about Time and the Terrors of the Shoreline in Dunsany and Wells.

Creatures of Moonshine: H. G. Wells’s ‘The Sea Raiders’ and the Oceanic Romance (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2022, April). Creatures of Moonshine: H. G. Wells’s ‘The Sea Raiders’ and the Oceanic Romance. Paper presented at BSLS 2022 Annual Conference, Manchester

There is a strand of nineteenth-century fiction interested in tentacled monsters based to a greater or lesser extent on cephalopods. Although the legendary kraken remained a legend, biology had learned a little about the real existence of giant squid... Read More about Creatures of Moonshine: H. G. Wells’s ‘The Sea Raiders’ and the Oceanic Romance.

Spectres in the Arctic: Whales and Arthur Conan Doyle (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2021, July). Spectres in the Arctic: Whales and Arthur Conan Doyle. Paper presented at Dark Economies, University of Falmouth

Whales have long held powerful symbolic places in the art, writing, and folklore of coastal and sea-going cultures globally. Under the expansion of industrialised whaling in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, however, both the whales and their me... Read More about Spectres in the Arctic: Whales and Arthur Conan Doyle.

Mould ships and fungal islands: mycology, ecoGothic and William Hope Hodgson’s ‘doubtful beings’ (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2018, July). Mould ships and fungal islands: mycology, ecoGothic and William Hope Hodgson’s ‘doubtful beings’. Paper presented at 14th Conference of the IGA 'Gothic Hybridities', Manchester Metropolitan University

For most of the long nineteenth century, the apparently hybrid biological workings and the unstable taxonomical status of moulds and fungi puzzled and fascinated scientists. Their ubiquity, plasticity, and position in what Ernst Haeckel termed a ‘bou... Read More about Mould ships and fungal islands: mycology, ecoGothic and William Hope Hodgson’s ‘doubtful beings’.