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How to write a novel – four fiction writers on Danielle Steel’s insane working day (2019)
Newspaper / Magazine
Bishop, D. (2019). How to write a novel – four fiction writers on Danielle Steel’s insane working day. https://theconversation.com/how-to-write-a-novel-four-fiction-writers-on-danielle-steels-insane-working-day-117155

How to write a novel – four fiction writers on Danielle Steel’s insane working day - article written Sarah Corbett - Lecturer in Creative Writing, Lancaster University; David Bishop - Programme Leader in Creative Writing, Edinburgh Napier University;... Read More about How to write a novel – four fiction writers on Danielle Steel’s insane working day.

The violent, post-truth 2017 predicted in The Running Man? We’re living in it (2017)
Newspaper / Magazine
Bishop, D. (2017). The violent, post-truth 2017 predicted in The Running Man? We’re living in it. https://theconversation.com/the-violent-post-truth-2017-predicted-in-the-running-man-were-living-in-it-70726

Welcome to a world where fake news stories are used to manipulate public opinion. Dissent is no longer tolerated and all your communications are monitored; the economy is not functioning and reality TV is used to distract you from harsher realities.... Read More about The violent, post-truth 2017 predicted in The Running Man? We’re living in it.

“A Thing Of Dreams And Desires, A Siren, A Whisper, And A Seduction”: Mermaids and the seashore in H. G. Wells’s The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine (2021)
Journal Article
Alder, E. (2021). “A Thing Of Dreams And Desires, A Siren, A Whisper, And A Seduction”: Mermaids and the seashore in H. G. Wells’s The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine. Shima, 15(2), 85-100. https://doi.org/10.21463/shima.142

The Sea Lady (1901) is one of the more neglected early novels of H. G. Wells, particularly compared to his more famous scientific romances. Both a social satire and a mediation on the limits of human imagination, Wells’s only mermaid story has drawn... Read More about “A Thing Of Dreams And Desires, A Siren, A Whisper, And A Seduction”: Mermaids and the seashore in H. G. Wells’s The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine.

Prisoner of War Camp Journals (2023)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2023). Prisoner of War Camp Journals. In M. Demoor, C. Van Dijck, & B. Van Puymbroeck (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

A case study of internment camp newspaper Stobsiade, contextualised in an overview of First World War internment camp periodicals.

The UK War Books Boom, 1926-33 (2021)
Data
Frayn, A., & Houston, F. (2021). The UK War Books Boom, 1926-33. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17869/enu.2021.2810868

Data for article 'The War Books Boom in Britain, 1928–1930'. For submission to First World War Studies, Oct 2021. Data collected Jan 2020-Aug 2021 from various sources articulated in article.

A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Freestone, P. (2021, December). A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF. Paper presented at Concepts in Popular Genre Fiction Symposium, Deakin University / Online

The rose has been valued, revered, and infused with meaning across time and cultures—from the earliest chemists to appear in the historical record to today's mass-market perfumes, from the religious festivals of ancient Rome to the works of the Roman... Read More about A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF.

Scottish Modernism as Renaissance (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2022, January). Scottish Modernism as Renaissance. Presented at Extension Lecture, Department of English, Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Dhupguri, Jalpaiguri University of North Bengal [Online]

The Scottish Revival Network (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2021, March). The Scottish Revival Network. Paper presented at The Future of Scottish Cosmopolitanism at the Fin de Siècle, University of Glasgow [Online]

The Future of Scottish Women's Writing (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2021, June). The Future of Scottish Women's Writing. Presented at Unforgettable, Unforgotten? Continuing the Recovery of Scottish Women Writers, c. 1880−1940, University of Edinburgh [Online]

Nan Shepherd, Scotland and the nature of rural modernism (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2022, June). Nan Shepherd, Scotland and the nature of rural modernism. Paper presented at The 3rd World Congress of Scottish Literatures, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

'And so with the moderns': The Role of the Revolutionary Writer and the Mythicization of History in J. Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus (2022)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2022). 'And so with the moderns': The Role of the Revolutionary Writer and the Mythicization of History in J. Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus. Clotho, 4(2), 127-152. https://doi.org/10.4312/clotho.4.2.127-152

The focus of this article is J. Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus (1933), his fictional representation of the slave rebellion in ancient Rome led by the eponymous gladiator. The article begins by examining Mitchell’s contribution to debates over the role o... Read More about 'And so with the moderns': The Role of the Revolutionary Writer and the Mythicization of History in J. Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus.

‘To “meddle wi’ the thistle”’: The Scottish Chapbook, Modernism, and Renaissance (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2022, August). ‘To “meddle wi’ the thistle”’: The Scottish Chapbook, Modernism, and Renaissance. Paper presented at MacDiarmid at 100, Online

The first number of The Scottish Chapbook was published in August 1922 and the journal ran until November/December 1923. The most important of MacDiarmid’s several journal projects, it is significant in several ways. Edited by C. M. Grieve, the first... Read More about ‘To “meddle wi’ the thistle”’: The Scottish Chapbook, Modernism, and Renaissance.

Richard Aldington, Images of War (1919) and Death of a Hero (1929) (2021)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2021). Richard Aldington, Images of War (1919) and Death of a Hero (1929). In R. Schneider, & J. Potter (Eds.), Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War (183-195). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110422467-009

Richard Aldington is a distinctive and underrated writer. His Imagist poetry and his coruscating First World War novel Death of a Hero (1929) have continued to receive scholarly attention, but from the first assessments he has tended to be diminished... Read More about Richard Aldington, Images of War (1919) and Death of a Hero (1929).