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John Buchan and the idea of modernity / edited by Kate Macdonald, Nathan Waddell.
- Title
- John Buchan and the idea of modernity / edited by Kate Macdonald, Nathan Waddell.
- Publication
- London : Pickering & Chatto, 2013.
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- Description
- 270 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Considered a quintessentially 'popular' author, John Buchan (1875-1940) was a prolific writer of fiction, journalism, philosophy and Scottish history. The essays in this collection examine Buchan's wide-ranging work in relation to contemporary ideas of modernity. By examining his engagement with empire, psychoanalysis, masculinity and propaganda, the contributors to this volume place Buchan at the centre of the debate between popular culture and the modernist elite."--Publisher's website.
- Series Statement
- Literary texts and the popular marketplace
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The roots that clutch: John Buchan, Scottish fiction and Scotland / Douglas Gifford -- A civilizing empire: T.H. Green, Lord Milner and John Buchan / Simon Glassock -- A very modern experiment: John Buchan and Rhodesia / Stephen Donovan -- 'The Ministry of Information': John Buchan's friendship with T.E. Lawrence / Simon Machin -- Masculinities in the Richard Hannay 'War trilogy' of John Buchan / Joseph A. Kestner -- John Buchan and the emerging 'post-modern' fact: information culture and the First World War / Rebecca Borden -- The spy-scattered landscapes of modernity in John Buchan's Mr Standfast / Christoph Ehland -- The soul's 'queer corners': John Buchan and psychoanalysis / John Miller -- John Buchan, myth and modernism / Douglas Kerr -- John Buchan and the American pulp magazines / Patrick Scott Belk -- What kind of heritage? Modernity versus heritage in Huntingtower / Pilvi Rajamae -- Living speech, dying tongues and reborn language: John Buchan and Scots vernacular poetry / Ryan D. Shirey -- John Buchan in Canada: writing a new chapter in Canada's constitutional history / J. William Galbraith.
- ISBN
- 9781848933965 (hbk.)
- 1848933967 (hbk.)
- 9781781440292 (ebook)
- 1781440298 (ebook)
- OCLC
- 820110568
- SCSB-10831468
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library