Nan Shepherd, Scotland and the nature of rural modernism
Presentation / Conference
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
Writing Science Fiction: Top Tips from a Sci-Fi Bestseller
Other
Lam, L. (2022)
Writing Science Fiction: Top Tips from a Sci-Fi Bestseller. [Blog]
A blog post for Jericho Writers on writing Science Fiction
Dictionary Entry: 'Lewis Spence'
Other
Lyall, S. (2022)
Dictionary Entry: 'Lewis Spence'. Edinburgh
Dictionary Entry: 'Nan Shepherd'
Other
Lyall, S. (2022)
Dictionary Entry: 'Nan Shepherd'. Edinburgh
Critical Revival: How Critics have read Revival and Renaissance
Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2022, March)
Critical Revival: How Critics have read Revival and Renaissance. Paper presented at 'The Scottish Revival and the Canon', Seminar 3 of The Scottish Revival Network, Online
Scottish Modernism as Renaissance
Presentation / Conference
Lyall, S. (2022, January)
Scottish Modernism as Renaissance. Presented at Extension Lecture, Department of English, Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Dhupguri, Jalpaiguri University of North Bengal [Online]
‘World’s long on academics, Morse, but woeful short of good detectives’: Lewis, Hathaway and Endeavour: The changing roles of Colin Dexter’s sidekick
Book Chapter
Bishop, D. (2021)
‘World’s long on academics, Morse, but woeful short of good detectives’: Lewis, Hathaway and Endeavour: The changing roles of Colin Dexter’s sidekick. In L. Andrew, & S. Saunders (Eds.), The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction: A Study in Sidekicks (237-259). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74989-7
Bishop offers the first comprehensive analysis of the many variations of sidekick found in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse novels, and in the three television drama series base...
British War Writing, 1900–1920: Empire, Mass Warfare and Mass Culture
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: 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 m...
“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
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 mediatio...
A rose is a rose is a rose: even in YA SFF
Presentation / Conference
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 perfu...