John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity

'The collection is an example of "middlebrow studies" at its strongest, and the volume stands as an invitation to further exploration of how Buchan's work overlaps and engages with that of canonical modernist authors as well as prolific Victorian and Edwardian figures.' SHARP News 'The essays are a fascinating collection with several new areas exposed for examination.' The John Buchan Journal 'great stuff, convincing in its range of approaches - historical, stylistic, psychological, commercial - making full use of a by-now substantial biographical and critical archive. Its strength will surely also lie in motivating other scholars to explore neglected but perceptive fictionalist interpreters of this period, from Arnold Bennett to Eric Ambler.' Christopher Harvie, University of Tubingen 'offers a fine mixture of theoretical and archival research that provides the student of modernity with much to consider about John Buchan ... there is much here too on the postwar era that will interest scholars studying the broader literary and social contexts of the years following World War I.' English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920

• Introduction, Kate Macdonald, Nathan Waddell; Chapter 1 The Roots that Clutch: John Buchan, Scottish Fiction and Scotland, Douglas Gifford; Chapter 2 A Civilizing Empire: T. H. Green, Lord Milner and John Buchan, Simon Glassock; Chapter 3 A Very Modern Experiment: John Buchan and Rhodesia, Stephen Donovan; Chapter 4 ‘The Ministry of Information’: John Buchan’s Friendship with T. E. Lawrence, Simon Machin; Chapter 5 Masculinities in the Richard Hannay ‘War Trilogy’ of John Buchan, Joseph A. Kestner; Chapter 6 John Buchan and the Emerging ‘Post-Modern’ Fact: Information Culture and the First World War, Rebecca Borden; Chapter 7 The Spy-Scattered Landscapes of Modernity in John Buchan’s Mr Standfast, Christoph Ehland; Chapter 8 The Soul’s ‘Queer Corners’: John Buchan and Psychoanalysis, John Miller; Chapter 9 John Buchan, Myth and Modernism, Douglas Kerr; Chapter 10 John Buchan and the American Pulp Magazines, Patrick Scott Belk; Chapter 11 What Kind of Heritage? Modernity Versus Heritage in Huntingtower, Pilvi Rajamäe; Chapter 12 Living Speech, Dying Tongues and Reborn Language: John Buchan and Scots Vernacular Poetry, Ryan D. Shirey; Chapter 13 John Buchan in Canada: Writing a new Chapter in Canada’s Constitutional History, J. William Galbraith;