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British War Writing, 1900–1920: Empire, Mass Warfare and Mass Culture (2021)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2021). British War Writing, 1900–1920: Empire, Mass Warfare and Mass Culture. In J. Purdon (Ed.), British Literature in Transition, 1900–1920: A New Age? (106-121). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108648714.007

Representations of conflict in the early twentieth century respond both to the impact of mass industrial warfare, particularly in the First World War, and the development of mass culture following the Education Acts of the late nineteenth century. Co... Read More about British War Writing, 1900–1920: Empire, Mass Warfare and Mass Culture.

The UK War Books Boom, 1926-33 (2021)
Data
Frayn, A., & Houston, F. (2021). The UK War Books Boom, 1926-33. [Data]. 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.

Ford and the First World War (2018)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2018). Ford and the First World War. In The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford. Routledge

This chapter surveys Ford Madox Ford's writings about war. He was conscious of war writing by the beginning of the twentieth century via his friendship with Stephen Crane; the First World War, however, was the major conflict for Ford. He wrote abou... Read More about Ford and the First World War.

Social Remembering, Disenchantment and First World War Literature, 1918–1930 (2018)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2018). Social Remembering, Disenchantment and First World War Literature, 1918–1930. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 11(3), 192-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2018.1490072

The way that the First World War would be remembered was yet to be solidified in the years immediately after the Armistice and peace treaties. Using key case studies from the years 1918 to 1930 by combatant authors Gilbert Frankau, Ernest Raymond, C... Read More about Social Remembering, Disenchantment and First World War Literature, 1918–1930.

Introduction: War and Memory (2018)
Journal Article
Frayn, A., & Phillips, T. (2018). Introduction: War and Memory. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 11(3), 181-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2018.1490075

This introduction situates the articles in this journal issue within recent scholarship about war and memory. The plethora of available terminology is addressed, tracing memory studies back to the rediscovery of Maurice Halbwachs’s theories of colle... Read More about Introduction: War and Memory.

German prisoners held comedy nights in British war camps – we recreated one (2018)
Newspaper / Magazine
Frayn, A. (2018). German prisoners held comedy nights in British war camps – we recreated one

This article engages with the history of First World War internment, both civilian and prisoner of war. The focus is the Stobs Camp, near Hawick, and the theatre show A Night at Stobs, part of a public engagement project.

Introduction to H.G Wells "The War of the Worlds" and "The War in the Air" (2017)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2017). Introduction to H.G Wells "The War of the Worlds" and "The War in the Air". In A. Frayn (Ed.), The War of the Worlds and The War in the Air. Wordsworth Editions

Published a decade apart and spanning the turn of the twentieth century, The War of the Worlds (1898) and The War in the Air (1908) are brought together in one volume for the first time in this Wordsworth edition...

Introduction: Modernism and the First World War (2017)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2017). Introduction: Modernism and the First World War. Modernist Cultures, 12(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2017.0153

Introduction to special issue of Modernist Cultures on Modernism and the First World War. Surveys recent critical issues at the intersection of First World War and Modernist Studies, and introduces essays in the issue.

“Now – Well, Look at the Chart”: Mapping, Maps and Literature (2017)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2017). “Now – Well, Look at the Chart”: Mapping, Maps and Literature. In S. D. Brunn, & M. Dodge (Eds.), Mapping Across Academia (259-285). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1011-2_13

This chapter examines the resistance in literary criticism to making maps. Literary analysis is deeply invested in the construction of space and associated theories, but these have rarely been cartographical. Recent work that discusses the developmen... Read More about “Now – Well, Look at the Chart”: Mapping, Maps and Literature.

David Bowie’s late revival belongs to a grand tradition dating back to Beethoven (2017)
Newspaper / Magazine
Frayn, A., & Durkin, R. (2017). David Bowie’s late revival belongs to a grand tradition dating back to Beethoven. https://theconversation.com/david-bowies-late-revival-belongs-to-a-grand-tradition-dating-back-to-beethoven-71031

On David Bowie's Blackstar as embodying aspects of late style, as discussed by Theodor Adorno and Edward Said.

https://theconversation.com/david-bowies-late-revival-belongs-to-a-grand-tradition-dating-back-to-beethoven-71031

What a victory it might have been”: C. E. Montague and the First World War. (2016)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2016). What a victory it might have been”: C. E. Montague and the First World War. In T. Tate, & K. Kennedy (Eds.), The Silent Morning: Culture and Memory After the Armistice (131-148). Manchester University Press

Discusses Montague's post-war prose work in terms of peace and silence.

Ford and the First World War (2015)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2015). Ford and the First World War. In A. Chantler, & R. Hawkes (Eds.), An Introduction to Ford Madox Ford (121-133). Ashgate Publishing

No abstract available.

Writing disenchantment: British First World War prose, 1914-30 (2014)
Book
Frayn, A. (2014). Writing disenchantment: British First World War prose, 1914-30. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719089220.001.0001

This book argues that disenchantment is not only a response to wartime experience, but a condition of modernity with a language that finds extreme expression in First World War literature. The objects of disenchantment are often the very same as the... Read More about Writing disenchantment: British First World War prose, 1914-30.

Richard Aldington's Images, the Metropolis, and the Masses (2014)
Journal Article
Frayn, A. (2014). Richard Aldington's Images, the Metropolis, and the Masses. Modernist Cultures, 9(2), 260-281. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2014.0086

Richard Aldington’s city poems in the latter part of his 1915 collection Images
are concerned with the masses who inhabit the modern city. Aldington is
at pains to stress his distinction from those he perceives as an increasingly
homogenized crowd... Read More about Richard Aldington's Images, the Metropolis, and the Masses.

This battle was not over: Parade’s End as a transitional text in the development of ‘disenchanted’ First World War literature. (2008)
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2008). This battle was not over: Parade’s End as a transitional text in the development of ‘disenchanted’ First World War literature. In A. Gąsiorek, & D. Moore (Eds.), Ford Madox Ford: Literary Networks and Cultural Transformations (201-216). Rodopi

This chapter argues that the novels of Ford's Parade's End tetralogy occupy a significant place in the development of "disenchanted" fiction about the First World War. The values of Ernest Raymond's patriotic Tell England are contrasted with those of... Read More about This battle was not over: Parade’s End as a transitional text in the development of ‘disenchanted’ First World War literature..