James and Percival Everett's Dialogue with US Storytelling
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keeble, A. (2025, December)
James and Percival Everett's Dialogue with US Storytelling. Paper presented at PERCIVAL - an international conference on the literature and art of Percival Everett, London
This paper considers James within Everett’s famously diverse oeuvre – to date including twenty-four novels, four collections of short fiction, three collections of poetry and ...
The Voice of the Sea: Sound in Dion Fortune's The Sea Priestess
Digital Artefact
Martin, S. (2025)
The Voice of the Sea: Sound in Dion Fortune's The Sea Priestess. [Film]. Edinburgh
An exploration of the locations and role of sound in Dion Fortune's (1890-1946) novel The Sea Priestess (1938).
'A "vigilance society for Scottish culture": The Saltire Society and the Scottish Literary Renaissance'.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2025, March)
'A "vigilance society for Scottish culture": The Saltire Society and the Scottish Literary Renaissance'. Presented at The History of the Saltire Society, The Saltire Society, Edinburgh, UK
Scottish Scene and the ‘Condition of Scotland’ Question
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2025, February)
Scottish Scene and the ‘Condition of Scotland’ Question. Presented at 'For I Will Give You The Morning Star': A Celebration of the Life and Work of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, The Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh
“The matter of Scotland”: Gray and MacDiarmid
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. “The matter of Scotland”: Gray and MacDiarmid. In The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray. Edinburgh University Press)
Lyall, S. “The matter of Scotland”: Gray and MacDiarmid. In The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray. Edinburgh University Press
This chapter charts the influence on Alasdair Gray’s work of the poet and propogandist for Scottish Renaissance Hugh MacDiarmid’s writings and cultural politics. It analyses t...
The Contemporary New Orleans Novel and/as Genre
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keeble, A. (2025, January)
The Contemporary New Orleans Novel and/as Genre. Paper presented at Modern Languages Association annual conference, New Orleans
This paper addresses two related questions. First, whether the New Orleans novel – or any cluster of novels brought together by a shared city setting – might be usefully under...
James and Percival Everett's Dialogue With American Literature
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keeble, A. (2024, October)
James and Percival Everett's Dialogue With American Literature. Paper presented at ASAP (Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present), New York
This paper considers James within Everett’s famously diverse oeuvre – to date including twenty-four novels, four collections of short fiction, three collections of poetry and ...
Femicide, Perpetrator Narratives and the Challenge of Restorative Justice: Em Strang's Quinn (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2024, August)
Femicide, Perpetrator Narratives and the Challenge of Restorative Justice: Em Strang's Quinn (2023). Paper presented at European Society of the Study of English (ESSE) Conference, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Cultural Trauma in Idra Novey's Take What You Need
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keeble, A. (2024, August)
Cultural Trauma in Idra Novey's Take What You Need. Paper presented at ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) 2024, Lausanne, Switzerland
Idra Novey’s third novel, Take What You Need (2023), depicts the complexities of a contemporary America whose divisions are often crudely defined. Through a story of ex-step-p...
Beyond Modernism: Noncanonicity and Early Twentieth Century British Literature
Book
Frayn, A., Jones, K., Faro, L., & Penda, P. (Eds.)
Beyond Modernism: Noncanonicity and Early Twentieth Century British Literature. Bloomsbury Publishing
This collection seeks an alternative history of British literature from 1890 to 1945; it has no essays on canonical British literary modernists. Instead, contributors reflect ...