Outputs (1965)

'Odd how the War changes us': May Sinclair, domesticity and war (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2021, June). 'Odd how the War changes us': May Sinclair, domesticity and war. Paper presented at Networking May Sinclair, University of Nantes (online)

This paper sees the post-war novels of the novelist, philosopher and poet May Sinclair (1863-1946) as negotiating between Victorian and modern values and literary forms: the First World War gives existing issues a focus during and after it. A suffra... Read More about 'Odd how the War changes us': May Sinclair, domesticity and war.

Post-war Fiction and the Literary Marketplace: Gilbert Frankau and Ford Madox Ford (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2019, October). Post-war Fiction and the Literary Marketplace: Gilbert Frankau and Ford Madox Ford. Paper presented at Upheaval and Reconstruction: Modernist Studies Association Conference, University of Toronto, Canada

Presentation at the Modernist Studies Association conference, on a panel organised by the British Association for Modernist Studies.

“Without sexual intercourse, frequent and pleasant”: Expurgating Richard Aldington’s Death of a Hero (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2019, June). “Without sexual intercourse, frequent and pleasant”: Expurgating Richard Aldington’s Death of a Hero. Paper presented at Troublesome Modernisms: the British Association for Modernist Studies conference, London

Richard Aldington treads a delicate line in his Death of a Hero, between ‘writing in all the buggers and bitches’ and his need to be published and to live by the pen; he borrows from Djuna Barnes the method of asterisking expurgated sections, the vis... Read More about “Without sexual intercourse, frequent and pleasant”: Expurgating Richard Aldington’s Death of a Hero.

“The war had only finished what Queenie had begun”: May Sinclair, gender, and war (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2018, September). “The war had only finished what Queenie had begun”: May Sinclair, gender, and war. Paper presented at 1918-2018: The End of the War & the Reshaping of a Century, University of Wolverhampton

Andrew Frayn’s paper focuses on the post-war moment, examining the novelist, poet and philosopher May Sinclair’s post-war work. Sinclair volunteered for the Munro Ambulance Corps in 1914, and her experience of the war stimulated a sustained burst of... Read More about “The war had only finished what Queenie had begun”: May Sinclair, gender, and war.

“They fell to pieces at a touch”: Richard Aldington, the First World War and the male body (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2018, July). “They fell to pieces at a touch”: Richard Aldington, the First World War and the male body. Paper presented at International Richard Aldington Society Conference, Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France

Richard Aldington’s poems in Images of War (1919) return insistently to the impact of the First World War on the male body. Drawing on theoretical work about bodies in war such as Joanna Bourke’s Dismembering the Male (1996), I argue that Aldington’s... Read More about “They fell to pieces at a touch”: Richard Aldington, the First World War and the male body.

Rewriting and remembering: R.H. Mottram and the First World War, 1914-1971 (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2018, July). Rewriting and remembering: R.H. Mottram and the First World War, 1914-1971. Paper presented at Recording, Narrating and Archiving the First World War: International Society for First World War Studies Conference, Deakin University,

In this paper I examine the ways in which R.H. Mottram continued to rewrite the First World War throughout his literary career. The Spanish Farm Trilogy is deservedly a canonical text of that conflict, and the success of those first three novels enab... Read More about Rewriting and remembering: R.H. Mottram and the First World War, 1914-1971.

Northernness, rurality and modernity in the works of Norman Nicholson (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2018, May). Northernness, rurality and modernity in the works of Norman Nicholson. Paper presented at Orientations: A Conference of Narrative and Place, University of Nottingham

In the introduction to the Collected Poems of Norman Nicholson (1914-87), Neil Curry highlights the systematic denigration of writers from the north of England by metropolitan literary networks. The Times obituary described Nicholson as ‘the most gif... Read More about Northernness, rurality and modernity in the works of Norman Nicholson.

Popular Modernisms? Resituating R. H. Mottram’s post-war fiction (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2017, April). Popular Modernisms? Resituating R. H. Mottram’s post-war fiction. Paper presented at The Fictional First World War: Imagination and Memory Since 1914, University of Aberdeen

R.H. Mottram’s critically-acclaimed novels of The Spanish Farm Trilogy (1924-27) used to great effect his experience of the defining historical event of the age. These were his first novels, although he had previously been on the periphery of London’... Read More about Popular Modernisms? Resituating R. H. Mottram’s post-war fiction.

“The Right to Live”: D.H. Lawrence, Max Plowman, and the First World War (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2016, December). “The Right to Live”: D.H. Lawrence, Max Plowman, and the First World War. Paper presented at Historical Modernisms, Institute for English Studies, University of London

A writer profoundly engaged with relationships between people, and between humankind and the world, D. H. Lawrence’s writing must be read in its historical context. Lawrence was affected deleteriously and profoundly by the First World War: the banni... Read More about “The Right to Live”: D.H. Lawrence, Max Plowman, and the First World War.

Mapping European War: Revolutionary Cartographies (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2015, November). Mapping European War: Revolutionary Cartographies. Paper presented at Modernism and Revolution: Modernist Studies Association Conference, Boston, US

Andrew Frayn opens our panel with “Mapping European War: Revolutionary Cartographies,” engaging with the possibilities and problems of recent theories of literary-critical cartography through the lens of British literature of World War I. The often-u... Read More about Mapping European War: Revolutionary Cartographies.

Counting the Cost: The First World War, Calculability and Rationalism (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2015, May). Counting the Cost: The First World War, Calculability and Rationalism. Paper presented at Aftermath: The Cultural Legacies of World War I, King’s College London

War, the City and Disenchanted Modernity: Richard Aldington’s Early Imagist Poetry (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2014, August). War, the City and Disenchanted Modernity: Richard Aldington’s Early Imagist Poetry. Paper presented at British Poetry of the First World War, Wadham College, Oxford

‘Music horrible and unreal’: music, its language, and First World War fiction (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2014, August). ‘Music horrible and unreal’: music, its language, and First World War fiction. Paper presented at The Music of War: 1914–1918, British Library, London

Narratives about the First World War often claimed that the physical experience of warfare was incommunicable to those who had not fought. Indeed, in the decade after the war much paper and ink was devoted to this aporia. In this paper I argue that... Read More about ‘Music horrible and unreal’: music, its language, and First World War fiction.

Enchantment and Disenchantment in Erskine Childers’ The Riddle of the Sands (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2013, March). Enchantment and Disenchantment in Erskine Childers’ The Riddle of the Sands. Paper presented at Approaching War: Europe, Newcastle University

Erskine Childers’ The Riddle of the Sands (1903) negotiates early twentieth century fears of war in fiction. The danger derives from the potential to traverse and shift national boundaries, particularly by naval warfare. The novel was written as a... Read More about Enchantment and Disenchantment in Erskine Childers’ The Riddle of the Sands.

Motherfuckers: Gender, Sexuality and Otherness in First World War Fiction (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2012, October). Motherfuckers: Gender, Sexuality and Otherness in First World War Fiction. Paper presented at Modernism and Spectacle: Modernist Studies Association Conference, Las Vegas, NV

This paper argues that the visceral reactions, particularly of non-combatants, to the deaths of immediate relations and lovers, and the profound emotions evinced, can be understood through the lens of necrophilia. Necrophilia, building on the work o... Read More about Motherfuckers: Gender, Sexuality and Otherness in First World War Fiction.

Pacifism as Disenchantment? Rose Macaulay’s Non-Combatants and Others (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2012, May). Pacifism as Disenchantment? Rose Macaulay’s Non-Combatants and Others. Paper presented at Narratives of Peace, 1854–1914, University of Sheffield

This paper argues that it is pertinent to see narratives of pacifism during the First World War in the context of later disenchanted writings, and that these often share linguistic and thematic concerns. Works which dared to express discontent with... Read More about Pacifism as Disenchantment? Rose Macaulay’s Non-Combatants and Others.

“The Ladybird,” Disenchantment and the First World War (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2012, April). “The Ladybird,” Disenchantment and the First World War. Paper presented at D.H. Lawrence, his Contemporaries, and the Great War, Arras, France

This paper sees D.H. Lawrence’s The Ladybird (1923) as part of a developing discourse of disenchantment which followed the First World War. Literary critics and historians tend to see disenchantment, or disillusionment, as a response to unspecified... Read More about “The Ladybird,” Disenchantment and the First World War.

Evolved Open-Endedness in Cultural Evolution: A New Dimension in Open-Ended Evolution Research (2023)
Journal Article
Borg, J. M., Buskell, A., Kapitany, R., Powers, S. T., Reindl, E., & Tennie, C. (in press). Evolved Open-Endedness in Cultural Evolution: A New Dimension in Open-Ended Evolution Research. Artificial Life, https://doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00406

The goal of Artificial Life research, as articulated by Chris Langton, is “to contribute to theoretical biology by locating life-as-we-know-it within the larger picture of life-as-it-could-be” (1989, p. 1). The study and pursuit of open-ended evoluti... Read More about Evolved Open-Endedness in Cultural Evolution: A New Dimension in Open-Ended Evolution Research.

Modernism and Imagist Poetry (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2016, July). Modernism and Imagist Poetry. Presented at Scottish Universities International Summer School, University of Edinburgh

Lecture delivered to the Scottish Universities International Summer School, University of Edinburgh.

Modernism and Imagist Poetry (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2017, July). Modernism and Imagist Poetry. Presented at Scottish Universities International Summer School, University of Edinburgh

Lecture to the Scottish Universities' International Summer School, University of Edinburgh.