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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...

Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End (tetralogy, 1924–1928)

Book Chapter
Frayn, A. (2021)
Ford Madox Ford, Parade’s End (tetralogy, 1924–1928). In R. Schneider, & J. Potter (Eds.), Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War (253-266). Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110422467-015
A key figure in the modernist network, Ford published new writers as the editor of two important journals, The English Review (1908–1910) and the transatlantic review (1924) (...

German Internees Writing the First World War: Identities, Irony and Humour in the Camp Newspaper Stobsiade

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2018, May)
German Internees Writing the First World War: Identities, Irony and Humour in the Camp Newspaper Stobsiade. Paper presented at International Conference on War and Imprisonment, New York, USA
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Introduction

Book Chapter
Fraser, B., & Riach, A. (2017)
Introduction. In Thali Katori: An Anthology of Scottish and South Asian Poetry (17-27). Edinburgh: Luath Press

The Man of Faith: Tagore on Social Inclusion

Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2016)
The Man of Faith: Tagore on Social Inclusion. In B. Knotkova-Capkova (Ed.), Tagore on Discriminations: Representing the Unrepresented(1
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Scholarly Edition of Scottish Scene

2023 - 2024
RATIONALE Scottish Scene was first published by Jarrolds in 1934. Widely reviewed at the time, it quickly became one of the most controversial texts of the Scottish literary renaissance of the early d...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £3,102

Scottish Shores RSE Workshop

2022 - 2023
The Scottish Shores Workshop forges new connections between Gothic studies and the Environmental and Blue Humanities. It emphasises Scottish coasts and littoral environments, which, like others around...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £9,940

The Literature House in the Digital Age: New Directions for Literary Heritage

2021 - 2024
This interdisciplinary project will situate the Edinburgh Literature House within the history of such institutions, to establish a context for an investigation of how the Literature House can now meet...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £54,999

World/Water Futures

2020 - 2021
Blue Humanities is an underdeveloped subfield within the Environmental Humanities. It focuses on the cultural meanings of water, and incorporates multiple disciplinary strands, including ecology, mari...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £10,000

Narratives of Scottish Modernism: Christine Orr and Naomi Mitchison

2019 - 2020
The main objective of this project is to conduct archival research that will lead to new and internationally significant academic publications on the literary work of two modern Scottish female author...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £7,465

“get leave to live”: Nan Shepherd and the canon of Scottish and International Modernism

2019 - 2020
The primary aims of this project are as follows: a) to research in the Nan Shepherd holdings, and archives related to Shepherd’s work, at the University of Aberdeen; b) to consult with several Shepher...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £3,547

The Edinburgh Editions of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

2019 - 2021
The works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle have never – beyond a small number of individual texts – been published in a scholarly, critical edition. The proposed Research Network, based in Edinburgh, is comp...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £20,000

RSE Visiting Fellowship - Peat

2017 - 2017
RSE Visiting Fellowship application for Alexandra Peat, Franklin University Switzerland. The main objective of the Fellowship is to pursue research on the 1938 British Empire Exhibition in Glasgow an...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £5,000