Andrew Frayn
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Frayn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Frayn |
| SIGNATURE | FRAYN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edinburgh Napier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6253-1454 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From the First World War to Iraq: Teaching War and Conflict Through Contemporary Literature and Culture – A Reflection and Response
This paper takes the form of a dialogue between two lecturers reflecting on the teaching of war literature at postgraduate and undergraduate levels. Cristina Pividori introduces a course designed for the MA in English Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, shaped by the Beyond Postmemory research group. Her module explores how second- and later-generation Anglophone writers revisit twentieth- and twenty-first-century conflicts through …
The First World War and Ford Madox Ford’s Short Stories, 1914–1920
This article analyses together, for the first time, Ford Madox Ford’s short stories about the First World War. A surprisingly unfamiliar form for Ford, who valued allusion, subtlety, and omission as narrative devices, we see in these stories his first attempts to parse his experience of wartime and, subsequently, military service. It is also an aspect of Ford’s writing which has received little previous critical comment. The wartime and post-war …
On the Perimeter and Fringe of War’: Norman Nicholson, Rural Modernity and Wartime
The author Norman Nicholson is an exemplary writer of rural modernity, acutely conscious of the need for rural areas to remain ‘living and organic communities’, as he puts it in his topographic book Greater Lakeland (1969). Here I argue that his position in his lifetime home of Millom, an industrial town on the periphery of the tourist Lake District, gives his writing a unique, revisionary perspective on both modern/ist and war poetry: he is a no…
Rural Modernity, Rural Modernism and Deindustrialisation in Norman Nicholson’s Poetry
This article argues that the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson (1914–1987) is an exemplary writer about rural modernity, whose work also enables us to conceptualise a rural modernism. Nicholson lived all his life in his home town of Millom, an industrial town excluded from the Lake District National Park at its creation. The sharp contrast between the idealised beauty of the Lakes and the labour and grime of the town brings into focus the relationsh…
The War Books Boom in Britain, 1928–1930
Based on a dataset of unparalleled extent containing nearly 1500 books, this article for the first time offers an analysis of the War Books Boom that combines the qualitative and quantitative. The Boom did not simply rise and fall; an early peak in publication in 1928 was followed by a dip in 1929, as huge successes like R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End and Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen Nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) dominated the …
Social Remembering, Disenchantment and First World War Literature, 1918–1930
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.E. Montague, R.C. Sherriff and Richard Aldington, this article charts the development of the complex relationship between the dominant heroic mode and emergent modern disenchantment. Theories of socia…
Introduction: War and Memory
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 collective memory and its growth from the late 1980s, particularly in Holocaust Studies. The importance of studying war and memory now is highlighted, drawing attention to the current European and global te…
Introduction: Modernism and the First World War
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
Writing disenchantment: British First World War prose, 1914–30
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 enchantments of scientific progress: bureaucracy, homogenisation and capitalism. Older beliefs such as religion, courage and honour are kept in view, and endure longer than often is realised. Social c…
Writing Disenchantment: British First World War Prose, 1914-30
From hope to Disenchantment, 1919–1922
This chapter demonstrates the dissonances of the immediate response to the war. The positive feeling generated by victory was counterbalanced by continuing industrial unrest and problems of reintegration. Conservative bestsellers by Gilbert Frankau and Ernest Raymond are analysed alongside overtly disenchanted works by Cicely Hamilton and A. P. Herbert, whose The Secret Battle, an account of the execution of a soldier unfairly shot for desertion,…
Writing disenchantment: British First World War prose, 1914-30
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 enchantments of scientific progress: bureaucracy, homogenisation and capitalism. Older beliefs such as religion, courage and honour are kept in view, and endure longer than often is realised. Social c…
Richard Aldington's Images , the Metropolis, and the Masses
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. This paper examines the literary, linguistic and rhetorical strategies by which Aldington ‘others’ the masses, and sets them in the context of contemporary studies of the crowd, focusing on the work of…
H. D.'s Madrigal
For so long a key figure for studying modernist women's writing, H. D. seems to have been sidelined in recent years. Authors such as Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Hope Mirrlees have been brought to cr
Introduction: Modernism and the First World War
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
Writing disenchantment: British First World War prose, 1914-30
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 enchantments of scientific progress: bureaucracy, homogenisation and capitalism. Older beliefs such as religion, courage and honour are kept in view, and endure longer than often is realised. Social c…
Richard Aldington's Images , the Metropolis, and the Masses
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. This paper examines the literary, linguistic and rhetorical strategies by which Aldington ‘others’ the masses, and sets them in the context of contemporary studies of the crowd, focusing on the work of…
H. D.'s Madrigal
For so long a key figure for studying modernist women's writing, H. D. seems to have been sidelined in recent years. Authors such as Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Hope Mirrlees have been brought to cr
Writing disenchantment: British First World War prose, 1914–30
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 enchantments of scientific progress: bureaucracy, homogenisation and capitalism. Older beliefs such as religion, courage and honour are kept in view, and endure longer than often is realised. Social c…
Writing Disenchantment: British First World War Prose, 1914-30
From hope to Disenchantment, 1919–1922
This chapter demonstrates the dissonances of the immediate response to the war. The positive feeling generated by victory was counterbalanced by continuing industrial unrest and problems of reintegration. Conservative bestsellers by Gilbert Frankau and Ernest Raymond are analysed alongside overtly disenchanted works by Cicely Hamilton and A. P. Herbert, whose The Secret Battle, an account of the execution of a soldier unfairly shot for desertion,…
Introduction: Modernism and the First World War
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
Social Remembering, Disenchantment and First World War Literature, 1918–1930
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.E. Montague, R.C. Sherriff and Richard Aldington, this article charts the development of the complex relationship between the dominant heroic mode and emergent modern disenchantment. Theories of socia…
Introduction: War and Memory
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 collective memory and its growth from the late 1980s, particularly in Holocaust Studies. The importance of studying war and memory now is highlighted, drawing attention to the current European and global te…
The War Books Boom in Britain, 1928–1930
Based on a dataset of unparalleled extent containing nearly 1500 books, this article for the first time offers an analysis of the War Books Boom that combines the qualitative and quantitative. The Boom did not simply rise and fall; an early peak in publication in 1928 was followed by a dip in 1929, as huge successes like R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End and Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen Nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) dominated the …
Rural Modernity, Rural Modernism and Deindustrialisation in Norman Nicholson’s Poetry
This article argues that the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson (1914–1987) is an exemplary writer about rural modernity, whose work also enables us to conceptualise a rural modernism. Nicholson lived all his life in his home town of Millom, an industrial town excluded from the Lake District National Park at its creation. The sharp contrast between the idealised beauty of the Lakes and the labour and grime of the town brings into focus the relationsh…
The First World War and Ford Madox Ford’s Short Stories, 1914–1920
This article analyses together, for the first time, Ford Madox Ford’s short stories about the First World War. A surprisingly unfamiliar form for Ford, who valued allusion, subtlety, and omission as narrative devices, we see in these stories his first attempts to parse his experience of wartime and, subsequently, military service. It is also an aspect of Ford’s writing which has received little previous critical comment. The wartime and post-war …
On the Perimeter and Fringe of War’: Norman Nicholson, Rural Modernity and Wartime
The author Norman Nicholson is an exemplary writer of rural modernity, acutely conscious of the need for rural areas to remain ‘living and organic communities’, as he puts it in his topographic book Greater Lakeland (1969). Here I argue that his position in his lifetime home of Millom, an industrial town on the periphery of the tourist Lake District, gives his writing a unique, revisionary perspective on both modern/ist and war poetry: he is a no…
From the First World War to Iraq: Teaching War and Conflict Through Contemporary Literature and Culture – A Reflection and Response
This paper takes the form of a dialogue between two lecturers reflecting on the teaching of war literature at postgraduate and undergraduate levels. Cristina Pividori introduces a course designed for the MA in English Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, shaped by the Beyond Postmemory research group. Her module explores how second- and later-generation Anglophone writers revisit twentieth- and twenty-first-century conflicts through …
Art (10 works) · History (9 works) · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Art history (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · History (5 works) · Disenchantment (4 works) · Modernity (4 works)