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A collection of edited essays on the novelist John Buchan (1875-1940), author of, among many other works, ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" (1915), ""Witch Wood"" (1927) and ""Sick Heart River"" (1940). It considers Buchan's writing and reputation from the perspective of the twenty-first century and examines Buchan's major fiction and non-fictional writing.

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Author:   Kate Macdonald
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138113053

ISBN 10:   1138113050
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   28 July 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I Cultural Roots; Chapter 1 John Buchan and Calvinism, James C. G. Greig; Chapter 2 Buchan and the Classics, Isobel Michael, Haslett; Chapter 3 ‘Twin Loyalties’: John Buchan’s England, David Goldie; Chapter 4 Buchan, Sport and Masculinity, Simon Glassock; Chapter 5 John Buchan and the Creation of the Springbok Warrior, Bill Nasson; Part II Divided Loyalties; Chapter 6 John Buchan and the South African War, Michael Redley; Chapter 7 John Buchan and the First World War: Fact into Fiction, Hew Strachan; Chapter 8 Buchan and the Pacifists, Nathan Waddell; Chapter 9 John Buchan, America and the ‘British World’, 1904–40, Peter Henshaw; Chapter 10 Islam and the East in John Buchan’s Novels, Ahmed K. al-Rawi; Chapter 11 Conquistadors: Buchan’s Businessmen, H. E. Taylor; Part III Literary Art; Chapter 12 ‘A Fraud Called John Buchan’: Buchan, Joseph Conrad and Literary Theft, Douglas Kerr; Chapter 13 Aphrodite Rejected: Archetypal Women in Buchan’s Fiction, Kate Macdonald; Chapter 14 John Buchan: Politics, Language and Suspense, Alan Riach; Chapter 15 Buchan’s Supernatural Fiction, Paul Benedict Grant; Chapter 16 The Anarchist’s Garden: Politics and Ecology in John Buchan’s Wastelands, John Miller; Chapter 17 Tracing The Thirty-Nine Steps, Tony Williams;

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