Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap cycle
Book Chapter
Alder, E. (2011)
Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap cycle. In S. Wasson, & E. Alder (Eds.), Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846317071.003.0008
This chapter offers a literary criticism of Stephen Donaldson's novel Gap. It discusses that transfiguration of the body, through the study of molecular biology and genetic en...
You Play Your Part – Older Women on Screen and in Production
Book Chapter
Macleod, K. (2015)
You Play Your Part – Older Women on Screen and in Production. In H. Savigny, E. Thorsen, D. Jackson, & J. Alexander (Eds.), Media, Margins And Popular Culture (28-40). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137512819_3
This chapter draws on the author’s practice-led research in community-based media to explore how participatory production techniques and strategies create opportunities to inc...
“Now – Well, Look at the Chart”: Mapping, Maps and Literature
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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). Dordrecht: Springer Verlag. 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...
Press Scrutiny and the Proposals for Security and Intelligence in an Independent Scotland.
Book Chapter
O'Neill, E. (2017)
Press Scrutiny and the Proposals for Security and Intelligence in an Independent Scotland. In Security in a Small Nation: Scotland, Democracy, Politics, (179-201). Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0078
This chapter examines the scrutiny by the press in Scotland and the wider UK, before, during and after the publication of issues related to the proposals presented in the Scot...
‘To level those monstrous Blotches or Pustules’: Skincare in Daniel Turner’s De Morbis Cutaneis (1714).
Book Chapter
Aske, K. (2024)
‘To level those monstrous Blotches or Pustules’: Skincare in Daniel Turner’s De Morbis Cutaneis (1714). In A. Ingram, H. Williams, & C. Lawlor (Eds.), Myth and (Mis)information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture (23–40). Manchester,UK: Manchester University Press
In 1711 Daniel Turner removed himself from the Barber-Surgeons Company and was admitted to licentiate by the Royal College of Physicians. Turner battled with his reputation as...
Ford and the First World War
Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2018)
Ford and the First World War. In The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox FordTaylor & Francis
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; th...
Sleepwalkers, Beware: Towards a Post-Structuralist Critique of Popular Music in Higher Education
Book Chapter
Moir, Z., & Hails, J. (2019)
Sleepwalkers, Beware: Towards a Post-Structuralist Critique of Popular Music in Higher Education. In Z. Moir, B. Powell, & G. Dylan Smith (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and PracticesLondon and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing
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Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2016)
Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (1-24). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004317451_002
While ‘community’ as a concept has come under increasing attack in a neoliberal era, it has remained in Scotland a mythic, though not unexamined, signifier of resistance to pe...
Literary affinities and the postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad.
Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2011)
Literary affinities and the postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad. In M. Gardiner, G. Macdonald, & N. O'Gallagher (Eds.), Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives, 86-97. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637744.003.0006
This paper offers a comparative study of some of the colonial fictions of Stevenson and Conrad. It takes a postcolonial position, arguing that both Stevenson and Conrad were m...
Richard Aldington, Images of War (1919) and Death of a Hero (1929)
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). Berlin: 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 scholar...