John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Macdonald, Kate; Waddell, Nathan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Considered a quintessentially 'popular' author, John Buchan was a writer of fiction, journalism, philosophy and Scottish history. By examining his engagement with empire, psychoanalysis and propaganda, the contributors to this volume place Buchan at the centre of the debate between popular culture and the modernist elite.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317319849
• Artikelnr.: 43589736

Autorenporträt

Kate Macdonald, Nathan Waddell

Inhaltsangabe

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;